crash: "Internal Error (0): Call to Object where the object was type 5, not the expected type 8"

Bug #1538274 reported by Mark Maxham
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Confirmed
High
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Bug Description

Inkscape 0.91 r (Feb 12 2015) on Ubuntu 14.04

Possibly defective PDF, but does not crash (e.g.) Illustrator or Acrobat.

See attached PDF and this command line:

$ inkscape -z Ropes_Lightplot.pdf -l Ropes_Lightplot.svg

Output:

Syntax Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'
Syntax Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'
Syntax Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'
Syntax Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'
Syntax Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'
Syntax Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'
Syntax Error (1128185): Unexpected end of file in flate stream
Internal Error (0): Call to Object where the object was type 5, not the expected type 8

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it.
** Message: Error: Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now

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Mark Maxham (mark-maxham) wrote :
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: crash importing pdf
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → High
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Mark Maxham (mark-maxham) wrote :

Also confirmed that 'pdf2svg' can successfully convert this test file.

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Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote :

- reproduced on Windows 7, Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (Jan 30 2015)
- reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.91+devel r14600 (Jan 17 2016)
- using a File->Load in both cases. In 0.91 stable I get the DOS message:

Error: Unknown character collection 'PDFTron-Identity'

plus the attached popup message

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
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