Hi,
I have started with inkscape one hour ago and now, I have my first problem.

In inkscape, my map shows good, but when I save and open it in Firefox, there are an big black box, but better I show you an screen-shot, i cant explain it so good (I'm german and cant speak so good english).



What I have done:
- delete backgrounds
- fill the countries and make an link into them
- replace the font

maybe its in your browser other: here the svg



Thank you very much

wers1

I can confirm the problem in Firefox. I can also confirm that Opera does not have the same problem. I've checked the SVG and confirm that you don't see to have a hidden object here. So I suspect this is a bug with Firefox.

If you need to find a work around, I would delete objects one by one, saving the image each time and opening it Firefox to see which object causes the black block to appear (I dare say there is just one item triggering the bug). Once you know which object causes the problem you might be able to do something differently to get around it.

thank you very much. above all for this easy speak - i have understood it

I have test it. if I delete the font, the black box is delete too. but I cant delete all the fonts. I make new fonts and delete the old. than its only hope and pray

Convert the fonts to paths and see if that helps?

I've noticed this in some of my comics too, and I finally had time to figure out what was causing it for me today. In several of my documents, an extra `svg:flowRoot` and `svg:flowRegion` appear in the XML tree. The construct does not appear anywhere in the Inkscape editor view, and can only be seen when rendering the SVG in Firefox and in Gnome (not in Safari or Webkit). To fix:

1. Backup your .svg file
2. Open the XML editor in Inkscape (Edit -> XML Editor, or SHIFT+CTRL+X)
3. Look for an element named svg:flowRegion and delete it and its child nodes
4. Save and test in Firefox 3+

If the black square disappears, then you've hit the right node. If you're diagram is missing something, then you've deleted the wrong node

I think that this may be a bug in Inkscape. I will report it if I can isolate what action is adding that node.

Cheers,

Yes, it's that flowRoot/flowPara stuff. It was removed from the specs and many renderers now assume that there is some kind of path (well, there is) and they go ahead and render it with the default style (black fill, no stroke, etc.).

Ideally Inkscape will keep the flowed text feature, but move it over to the Inkscape namespace while keeping some tspan (text) shadow copies in sync. This would keep the functionality without affecting compatibility.

I encountered the same problem. To fix it, I had to delete all of the <flowRoot> tags. (Deleting just the "flowRegions"s didn't fix it for me.)