This is still happening with inkscape 0.92 and Ubuntu 17.04 (zesty). When I wrote this answer (<https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/208172/14500>), everything worked. With version 0.92 of inkscape, the PDFs produced are blank (the object extracted by id is in the SVG document but the bounding box is incorrect).
This is still happening with inkscape 0.92 and Ubuntu 17.04 (zesty). When I wrote this answer (<https:/ /tex.stackexcha nge.com/ a/208172/ 14500>), everything worked. With version 0.92 of inkscape, the PDFs produced are blank (the object extracted by id is in the SVG document but the bounding box is incorrect).