Crash on SVG import (Win 7)

[Hachmann]

From the answers section (https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/287793):

Quoting user wobien (shortened):

Windows 7, Inkscape 0.91,
Installation file: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/3944/Inkscape-0.91-1.exe (32bit)

I used to be able to import an Inkscape .SVG file into another .svg.
I downloaded Inkscape 0.91 r13725 and now I can't any more.

I open an (existing) inkscape .svg file.
I go to the layer where I want to import the other file.
I click file - import, then chose the file I need.

Sometimes the file is imported, but often I get the message (in English): This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's Support team for more information.

And then: An internal error has occured in Inkscape. The program will terminate. Automatic copies of the files will be made on the location .....

Then the program is closed.

I tried it with many files, aand some I can import, but (of course?) the files I need to import (and used to import) don't work.

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It does not crash when copy-pasting the contents - but the user would like to keep the layer structure.
Removing the comment does not help.

[wobien (wdoyer)]

I add here a file that makes Inkscape crash when I import it. The file I import into can be anything, it even crashes when I import it into a new empty file I just created with Inkscape.

Wobien

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

crash confirmed on Windows 7 (32 bit), Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (Jan 30 2015)

- when I import the file into an empty document I get:
Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.

- when I Open the file, it appears to load normally, although a significant portion of the drawing is off the page, but perhaps that was deliberate.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

No crash on Linux Mint 17.3, 64bit, although layers appear to be messed up after import.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Testing on Windows 7 x64:
- Reproduced with release version Inkscape-0.91-1-win32
- Not reproduced with release version Inkscape-0.91-1-win64

- Not reproduced with trunk builds of Inkscape r14691 (win32/win64)

- Not reproduced with 0.91.x stable branch build of Inkscape r13859 (win64)
- Unfortunately I don't have a 0.91.x stable branch build targeting win32 to check right now...

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

crash not reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.91+devel r14691 (Mar 6 2016) (32 bit)

-when I Import the file it imports normally, as it also does when I Open the file.
However the scaling of the image is different in the two cases. When I Open the file the scaling appears to be correct, relative to the page size. When I Import the file, the image appears to be smaller, relative to the page size.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Reproduced on Windows XP (32-bit) with the official 0.91 7z archive.
Not reproduced with 0.91.x rev. 13859.

@Eduard - 0.91.x packaging in progress...

[wobien (wdoyer)]

Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote: - when I Open the file, it appears to load normally, although a significant portion of the drawing is off the page, but perhaps that was deliberate.

Yes, most of the drawing is deliberatly off the page.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Also not reproduced on Windows 7 x64 with 0.91.x rev. 13859 (win32).
So it seems to be fixed in win32/win64 builds of both 0.91.x stable branch and trunk.

@wobien: If you want you can test a development build to give final verification:
https://inkscape.org/download#download-devel

http://download.tuxfamily.org/inkscape/win32/inkscape-0.91.x-13859-win32.7z is a 32-bit build of the current 0.91.x stable branch.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Does the reported crash still reproduce with 32bit builds of latest Inkscape 0.92.0 r15299?

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