[Guillaume Pothier <gpothier@gm...>]

> Most likely because cairo had to rasterize some parts of image that
> cannot be in PDF.

It doesn't seem that anything beyond the original bitmap image was
rasterized, just placed into patterns.

> The structure of the output PDF is the responsibility of cairo.

Ok, I'll rebuild inkscape with a more recent version of cairo, and if
the problem persists I'll see with the cairo guys.
Thanks for the explanations!
g