Comment 30 for bug 1491064

The only reason I cannot recommend Inkscape as a replacement for Adobe Illustrator for scientific figures and posters is this bug, now 4 years old. Even the solution of locking the offending objects on different layers does not work all the time. With many objects, Inkscape (0.92.4 on Ubuntu 18.04), is unable to perform the move to a new layer.

I searched for alternatives to Inkscape and none of the ones that are open source is able to import correctly the svg files generated from R.

The only solution I currently have is to raterize part of the plots and use the uneditable bitmaps in Inkscape.