Comment 8 for bug 291416

I see the same, or a very similar problem. For me this frequently occurs when I open a pdf created in matlab. Saving this file as svg results in an unreadable svg file, as described above.

The error I get when running inkscape in a terminal is:
floqstuckquad.svg:22584: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0x90 0x3C 0x2F 0x74
                         id="tspan18016">�</tspan></text>
                                         ^
As an additional remark: If I use pdf2svg to convert the pdf to svg in the first place, and then open the resulting svg in inkscape everything works fine. It also seems to result in a cleaner xml structure, (less unnecessarily nested groups and groups of one object).

I'd be happy to provide original files etc. if that would be helpful. If there's anything else I can do to track this down, let me know...

thanks,

atreju