There might be a dialog for opening AI files in Inkscape (I don't have any for testing). Although who knows, after playing around with all these various options, you might find a way to fix the color changing. Start here: īut I don't think the missing paths is a bug, because it can be fixed just by using different options (or probably also with Object to Path). If it's not already reported, you can do it. You're welcome to look into it, if you like. There's some additional info on the Help tab of the DXF dialog, which might help you understand better. Also, I did Not use Object to Path, although that probably would work as well.

I only did that to make it easier to ID the objects (not because I thought it might help). I'm not sure if that would matter or not. Note that I ungrouped everything first, before I saved as DXF.

Aah, well all the text survives, at least in Inkscape. Ok, my first test will be with neither option enabled. I'm just guessing about that, I haven't actually tried it yet. It sounds like you maybe had both of them enabled, and the paths turned into Splines and the polygons turned into Polylines. And another is Use LWPOLYLINE type of output. One is Use RoboMaster type of Spline output. In the DXF dialog (which maybe you just clicked through?) there are a few options.

The missing letters are identified (both in status bar and XML Editor) as polygons. I'm looking at the SVG before it's converted to DXF.

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