Comment 31 for bug 55273

I've applied this to trunk - revision 18416, so it should be in for 0.47 unless it breaks stuff. Half the above patch had already been applied, so I've attached the patch I applied.

It's a shame that this patch came after after the March 11 release of 0.46 - the hard deadline for ubuntu was pretty early (although I noticed they later busted a gut to get Abiword 2.6 in post deadline!). There are some other great features and fixes that didn't quite make the cut either for similar reasons. There has been some discussion of six monthly releases loosely tied to the Ubuntu and Fedora release schedules, so hopefully that means it won't be 12 months.

There is some mention of being able to fix this by upgrading pstoedit - eg: Kenshiro said this;
> The problem should be resolved by installing pstoedit version 3.45... It worked like a charm for me!

Is that a viable fix for Hardy? If so it could be added to the known issues section of the readme on the Inkscape wiki, mentioning the workaround?