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After producing an SVG in Adobe Illustrator, I took this file and loaded it in my debian system... Inkscape immediately broke... will no longer render simple geometrics... square / ellipse / stars... and the same bug affects several other legacy SVG capable applications. This is very serious, as reinstalling Inkscape does not fix the problem !
I wonder who else might have encountered this... what libraries might need to be replaced to get Inkscape running again ? I do not want to do an entire reinstall of debian to get Inkscape working again, but will of course, without an answer to this problem.
This again is apparently, something in the Adobe SVG, which I have read have a lot of additional code in them, beyond basic SVG. This is more than a bug... it is malicious. Hope there is an easy answer.
thanks
Just out of curiosity... Did you also remove your home's .inkscape directory when you reinstalled inkscape? Maybe that's preventing Inkscape from working normally with other (perfectly sane) SVG files. And yes, Adobe implements the SVG format in a rather nasty way and breaks the main purpose of XML based formats: portability. Don't know if there is a way to generate "kosher" SVG files in Illustrator as there is in Inkscape (aka, without all the additional formatting and stuff)