Richard Kowalczyk wrote:
That was poorly worded by me - I meant that some greek letters get changed to their non-greek equivalent. For instance, beta is becoming b. It only happens to some letters though - I don't know why.
Sounds like it's doing a "smart" conversion from a nice character to the 'b' in an ASCII or Latin-1 mode.
A second issue is that for some reason, the letters fi get converted into a strange character which stops inkscape from importing, and inkview from showing.
Could be the same or similar thing happening. There is an 'fi' ligature that could be getting confused at some point.
Could you try "hexdum -C" on your file at different points to see which bytes are being used? Aside from the characters in question, also look for a few strange ones at the very top.