Comment 6 for bug 492773

I don't know how to fix Inkscape (I think the bug may be in Cairo rather than Inkscape itself), but I can tell you what's wrong with the EPS file.

There are many lines that look like this:

123.456 314.159 m f

(The numbers vary, of course, and sometimes there's a * at the end of the line.) This line adds an empty open subpath to the path before filling the path.

To fix the file, I removed everything from these lines except the final f (or f*),