Comment 9 for bug 1703416

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kenneth (kennethyorke) wrote : Re: [Bug 1703416] Re: Inkscape make a file bigger when saving

Good Day Alvin

Can you confirm where I can find the clean up exe file and how to run it
please.
Best Regards

Kenneth Yorke
www.peninsulatombstones.co.za
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Alvin Penner <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was not able to open the image called Leeuw.png, I get a message
> saying it is not a valid bitmap file. However I was able to load the file
> ClintonLeeuw.svg. It took a while to load. When I click on the Select All
> menu item I get a lot of rectangles that look like your image in comment 1.
> When I interrogate these objects it appears that they are mostly either
> <flowroot> elements or <text> elements, except that the text in them
> consists of just a single blank space. I am attaching a typical flowroot
> element below.
> I guess the question is, where did they originate? Your initial
> comment seemed to say that this image was originally created in an earlier
> version of Inkscape. Could you attach that original image for comparison
> purposes?
>
> .................................................
> <flowRoot
> xml:space="preserve"
> id="flowRoot5627-1-3"
> style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:
> normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:0.01%;font-family:
> Arial;-inkscape-font-specification:Arial;text-align:center;letter-spacing:
> 0px;word-spacing:0px;text-anchor:middle;fill:#000000;
> fill-opacity:1;stroke:none"
> transform="matrix(0.26458333,0,0,0.26458333,5795.03,-8076.
> 8502)"><flowRegion
> id="flowRegion5629-18-2"><rect
> id="rect5631-3-8"
> width="694.53552"
> height="365.54501"
> x="-32813.758"
> y="-1725.7798" /></flowRegion><flowPara
> id="flowPara5633-37-8"
> style="font-size:114px;line-height:1.25"> </flowPara></flowRoot>
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1703416
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> Title:
> Inkscape make a file bigger when saving
>
> Status in Inkscape:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I create an image in inkscape 0.48 and when I try to open it again the
> application often crashes with a glib error. I then downloaded
> inkscape 0.92.1 and tried omporting the same file, it takes about a
> minute but I can then see that inkscape 0.48 added a lot of
> (points/dots) scatteredall over the page or around the image which
> makes the image increase in size thus it crashes when on tries to open
> it again. Please see attachment
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