: How to create a "colorless" PDF with Inkscape? I'm creating a document with LaTeX and use icons in PDF format. Originally, I have them as SVG files but I have to convert them to PDF for

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I'm creating a document with LaTeX and use icons in PDF format. Originally, I have them as SVG files but I have to convert them to PDF for LaTeX to include them.

Now I want to color the same icon differently depending on context. Here, Heiko Oberdiek writes:


If you are lucky and the PDF image does not contain any color operators [then it's easy].


So that's what I want to do! Using Inkscape, I have unset all stroke and fill colors. Also, I checked that the document properties do not set a color profile. The only references to colors I can see in the SVG are pagecolor="#ffffff" and bordercolor="#666666" on the root.

However, pdflatex is not able to color the icon.

In the uncompressed PDF, I find indeed

0 rg


and, elsewhere,

/CS /DeviceRGB


Can I make Inkscape generate a PDF without any color operators?



I tried removing pagecolor and bordercolor with a text editor and converting to PDF with inkscape -A icon.pdf icon.svg. No change.

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