Confirmed with upstream inkscape 0.45svn that correct rendering is produced.
Work was done on gradient rendering in the 0.43 to 0.44 development cycle, that I suspect fixed the cause of this problem. -- Gradients screen rendering issue https://launchpad.net/bugs/42963 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
