This is a read-only archive of the inkscapeforum.com site. You can search for info here or post new questions and comments at I spent a bit of time on a business card design last week, then went to continue work today only to find that Inkscape wont open the file
"failed to load the requested file"
I wasnt initially too worried, as I have set up autosave on it, and figured I could just retrieve an earlier version from the autosave directory. However, when I do this, I get the same error.
I read a bit here about the file format and had a look at it in Notepad, but couldnt see anything amiss - not that thats saying much though as Im pretty clueless about xml
Can anyone help with this?
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2054016994
BTW, this is not an import. The file was created in inkscape and saved in inkscape
SVG file and autosave won't load
Re: SVG file and autosave won't load
apcrcom wrote:BTW, this is not an import. The file was created in inkscape and saved in inkscape
Really?
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 11 Build 196, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.0.0 Build 78) -->
<svg
xmlns:xapGImg="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/g/img/"
xmlns:xap="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"
xmlns:ns0="http://ns.adobe.com/SaveForWeb/1.0/"
xmlns:ns="http://ns.adobe.com/Variables/1.0/"
xmlns:i="http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeIllustrator/10.0/"
xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
i:viewOrigin="9.8232 622"
i:rulerOrigin="0 -167"
i:pageBounds="0 632 465 167"
…
(what also broke the encoding when round-trip editing it in Inkscape): Code: Select all
/Volumes/xxxx/yyyy/Inkscape/dev/forum/_misc/apcrcom-business card 3.svg:1571: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xFF 0x27 0x20 0x69
<?xpacket begin='?' id='W5M0MpCehiHzreSzNTczkc9d'?><x:xmpmeta
^
** (inkscape:95342): WARNING **: SVGView: error loading document '/Volumes/xxxx/yyy/Inkscape/dev/forum/_misc/apcrcom-business card 3.svg'
Anyway - here's a "fixed" version which opens fine in Inkscape 0.48.2: apcrcom-business_card_3-fixed.svg
(Probably what I deleted (due to corrupted encoding, see bug #675170 - one of the duplicates of bug #499257 ) was left there by Adobe Illustrator to cater for proprietary edits - might be that the file looks different now when opening again in AI).
Edit: attaching a cleanup and vacuumed version (no more i:pgf stuff from AI - note the reduction of file size, which allows to attach it here in the forum):
Re: SVG file and autosave won't load
Honestly dont remember doing anything with Illustrator on this file, but if thats what you are seeing, then it must have been imported or exported at some point. Apologies for my confusion, and a lesson learned about problems this could cause in future 
As I am a complete lamer with Inkscape
you have probably saved me an hour or more of work re-doing this. Thanks a heap for your efforts. Much appreciated
As I am a complete lamer with Inkscape
you have probably saved me an hour or more of work re-doing this. Thanks a heap for your efforts. Much appreciated