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Cannot open SVG file that was saved from a PDF opened with "Embed Images" option set

Bug #297702 reported by dr21702 on 2008-11-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #291416: SVG from imported PDF cannot be reopened, characters error. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

If a PDF file is opened with the "Embed Images" option checked and saved as an SVG file, the resulting SVG file cannot be opened in Inkscape. (Failed to open the request file error).

Steps for error:
- Select the "Open..." or "Import..." action and select the PDF file
- Leave "Embed Images" option checked.
- Select the "Save As..." option and save the file as a SVG
- Close Inkscape and attempt to re-open the SVG
- Failed to open requested file error occurs.

Note that SVG files saved from PDFs opened without the "Embed Images" option checked also fail to open on version 0.46 release. Version 0.46-Devel 20198 can open an SVG files from PDF files opened without the "Embed Images" option. Version 0.46 release seems to put the images files from the opened PDF in the wrong location.

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dr21702 (vandal-racinginc) wrote on 2008-11-13:

Test PDF file and 2 SVG files of it, one with embed images, the other without Edit (3.6 MiB, application/x-7z-compressed)

Revision history for this message

su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2010-02-24:

297702-console-log.txt Edit (2.4 KiB, text/plain)

1) failure to open 'ChannelGuideWithEmbedImages.svg'
reproduced in Inkscape 0.47+devel r9108 on OS X 10.5.8 (console messages attached)

2) failure to load linked images from 'ChannelGuideWithoutEmbedImages.svg'
not reproduced with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9108

3) failure to open file when repeating the steps (open PDF -> save as SVG -> open SVG)
reproduced with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9108: the SVG file fails to load with these console messages: