Comment 18 for bug 281713

Thanks very much, upgrading to libcairo 1.8.2 has fixed it :

ii libcairo2 1.8.2-0ubuntu1~fta1~intrepid The Cairo 2D vector graphics library

For the benefit of others, after adding
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ubuntu intrepid main

to my sources.list I just did
sudo apt-get update

then waited for the software update icon to appear in the taskbar. Then I chose *just* the libcairo package to be updated, as I was unsure what the other packages were.

Thanks again for the fix.