On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Those settings seem to work fine for me (using Inkscape 0.48.4). I don't know what's going on, but here are some options:
Excuse me for joining this thread late, but I have a comment that might be pertinent. I have found that some .pdf files display a black box where images should appear when I use xpdf, but not when I use mupdf, epdfview, or acroread. The the view the same regardless of pdf viewer? If so, then my comment is not useful. Rich