thanks to all who answered...
at least I am not alone in my suspecting the Illustrator SVG
nice to know about "clean SVG" output... however... I am just not in the mood for testing this right now :-)
I will however check to be sure all the old Ink directories are gone before trying to reinstall once more... thanks for that suggestion.
Yes, bulia... to someone who knew what it was, it might be good to see the SVG which caused this, but I cant go passing this buggy file about on the net... people will start accusing me of spreading viruses... besides which, I promptly erased every copy of the SVG :-)
stuseven wrote:
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.
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