Re: [Inkscape-devel] Symbols Dialog

On 11/10/2012 22:12, Tavmjong Bah wrote: AFAICT the 'Symbols' dialog loads and displays any kind of <symbol> objects found in the <defs> section of the current document. SVG files created from PDF files via poppler-cairo (inkscape's own 'Adobe PDF via poppler-cairo' import extension, or e.g. with pdftocairo (from poppler), with pdf2svg or via printing to file (SVG) from Evince) have any text from the original PDF outlined, and the paths for the characters are stored as (AFAICT regular SVG) symbols inside a group in the <defs> section. Inkscape (stable and trunk) renders such files fine. Opening the 'Symbols' dialog for such a document (to see the symbol preivews of the embedded outlined characters) however crashes Inkscape (backtrace from OS X attached, same crash happens on Ubuntu 12.10). V