@Khorf - it looks like gradients with 'repeat' settings other than
'none' are exported in a way that lets Adobe Reader crash. That's a bug
in AR (even if the PDF is bad it shouldn't crash) that Adrian has
reported to Adobe. You could confirm that it is limited to 'reflect' or
'direct' by recreating the dart gradient without 'Repeat: reflect' but
with several stops that simulate the 'reflect' effect and testing if AR
still crashes when opening the new PDF (or by trying to open the three
PDFs included in my previous attachment with AR).

Other than that I'm not expert enough to determine what causes the issue
- I don't know the PDF file format (how it defines reflected or repeated
linear gradients) and I trust Adrian if he says it looks like a bug in
Inkscape.

[ side note: I'm unsure whether this is a new issue and should better be
filed separately or if it warrants to re-open this report (which was
from the beginning a mixed bag of pattern and gradient issues?).
Personally I would have filed a new one I guess, because it looks like
it's limited to the export of two types of linear gradients, independent
of transparency issues or other known difficulties with PDF export. Of
course this is an assumption I can't verify without having Adobe
software installed - but if AR would crash on every PDF with gradients
created by Inkscape, I'd assume the bug tracker would be 'flooded' with
duplicate reports?

Could some else from the Bug Team have a closer look at this? ]

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Exporting patterns and gradients doesn't work for PDF / EMF
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