Comment 5 for bug 367446

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Norbert Nemec (nnemec) wrote : Re: [Bug 367446] Re: eqtexsvg: use free software only

To me, this sounds linke a bug in SVG import. New symbols with different
content should be mapped to new, unique IDs, avoiding conflicts with
existing content.
On 29 Sep 2014 00:46, "Julian Gilbey" <email address hidden> wrote:

> There seems to be a problem with this patch. If I try to add an "x" and
> then a "y" using this patch, the "y" comes out as an "x". This seems to be
> because pdf2svg creates xml elements of the form
> <symbol overflow="visible" id="glyph0-0">
> But then when the next pdf file is converted, it also has identical
> entries, which are then ignored in favour of the already existing ones in
> the master svg file.
> I don't see an obvious way to fix this bug, except by locating all glyph%d
> ids in the master svg file, and then renumbering those in the svg generated
> by pdf2svg before merging it in.
>
> :-(
>
> Julian
>
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