Inkscape generates a SVG file that cannot be properly rendered by many other softwares.

[Welton Rodrigo Torres Nascimento]

A tried to create a water mark to use on libreoffice, but that file (which is attached to this bug report) cannot be properly viewed neither by libreoffice, eog, firefox, Chrome or GIMP (i didn't tried any other).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE BUG:

1 - Try to open the attached file on any software on your machine.
2 - Try to open the same file on InkScape.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: eog 3.6.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 8 17:59:38 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-20 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: eog
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-19 (20 days ago)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Moving this to inkscape, as the generated SVG file can not be validated [1], probably that is why other apps can not render it. The error message is: Line 58, Column 89: SVG element flowRoot not allowed as child of SVG element g in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

…rix(0.78679596,-1.134808,1.092954,0.81692577,-127.23755,732.25196)"><flowRegion

[1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.launchpad.net%2Fubuntu%2F%2Bsource%2Feog%2F%2Bbug%2F1076758%2F%2Battachment%2F3428202%2F%2Bfiles%2FMinuta.svg&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Known issue, already tracked in
Bug #167335 "flowed text has no SVG 1.1-compliant fallback”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167335>

See also:
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_about_flowed_text.3F>
and
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Enter-Flow>
<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Enter-Regular>