Comment 12 for bug 665612

Failure to save 'Geller.svg' as PS file reproduced with Inkscape 0.48.1 and 0.48+devel r10325 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (i386) with cairo 1.10.2.

The SVG file seems to originate from an imported PS file (based on the many nested layer transforms, and clipped groups (e.g. for the border frames). The size of the bitmap in the background doesn't seem to matter (saving a copy as PS also fails after deleting the embedded bitmap).

Possibly trying to reduce the complexity (nested levels of groups with complex transforms), as well as releasing unneeded clips might possibly help with saving as PS (Note: IMHO Inkscape is not yet well suited to roundtrip-edit other vector formats without encountering issues at some point due to the repeated conversions between the different file formats (PS > SVG > PS) using different libraries (poppler, cairo). If imported PS files are to be used as groundwork for an Inkscape drawing, I'd recommend to ungroup and strip the content down to the essential paths and text objects (as far as possible), add new layers and structure the drawing according to content on several layer levels).

The error seems to occur in the cairo library (Inkscape itself usually is more verbose with warnings and console messages).