EOG doesn't display .svg w/ multiple lines of text properly

[Erik B. Andersen]

Binary package hint: eog

Both in previews in nautilus (which comes from eog, I think?) and in EOG itself, SVGs that have multiple lines of text in one 'box' show up as a solid box where you would expect to see text. By the way, the SVGs where made with inkscape. In fact, I'll attach them to this bug report.

Ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

apt-cache policy eog
eog:
  Installed: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, is not visible with eog and neither with gimp, couldyou take an screenshot of what you're referring to? thanks Erik.

[floflooo (florent-angly-gmail)]

I have this problem with SVGs produced by Inkscape. But really it's Inkscape's "fault", not EOG's. See this: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_about_flowed_text.3F
Still it would be nice if EOG would support it...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug should be sent to GNOME by somebody having the issue

[Erik B. Andersen (azendale)]

So who should we complain to? Or will this be fixed automatically when the SVG specification comes out?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of eog is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[floflooo (florent-angly-gmail)]

I'm on Fedora now, but with EOG 2.30.1, there are still black boxes. I think there are still some unanswered questions here. Has the bug been filed upstream? Also, Erik's questions are unanswered: who should we complain to? will this be fixed automatically when the SVG specification comes out?

[Erik B. Andersen (azendale)]

It still happens in Lucid with all the updates.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That has been fixed upstream in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/commit/d38cb2e3

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

which is in the current bionic version