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Please help me.Inkscape error..help me
Inkscape error..help me
Hello, I have a problem opening an inkscape file, it gives me an error. It is very important for me the content of the file, i do not know what to do. The error sounds like this: Failed to load the requested file://Path. What can i do in this case so i can save my work from that file ?! Please help me.
Please help me.Re: Inkscape error..help me
if it's not secret squirrel monkey business (yes animals are better in business) then you might like to put the svg up somewhere on the internet where we can download and have a look at it. you could also try opening the svg file yourself in a text editor to see if it opens and if there's some svg related problem. if it doesn't open in a text editor either, then you have a corrupted file, in which case you might or might not be able to save the contents.
Re: Inkscape error..help me
Hello, i've opened it with notepad++ and respect the other files that work, i see there are missing things like "markers" and "rect" in my file..this means i have a corrupted file? no can do?
Re: Inkscape error..help me
Hi Amethyst, 
Welcome to InkscapeForum!
It sounds like if it opens, then it's not corrupt (according to my understanding of chriswww's message).
I just wanted to mention that you can upload the file here, as an attachment to your next reply. (Look just below Save, Preview, Submit buttons, click "Upload attachments" tab and follow prompts.) Then others of us can try opening it, and help you figure it out.
If you're trying to open the image from a link, and the link is broken, or you've moved the file somewhere else, that could be the problem.
Welcome to InkscapeForum!
It sounds like if it opens, then it's not corrupt (according to my understanding of chriswww's message).
I just wanted to mention that you can upload the file here, as an attachment to your next reply. (Look just below Save, Preview, Submit buttons, click "Upload attachments" tab and follow prompts.) Then others of us can try opening it, and help you figure it out.
If you're trying to open the image from a link, and the link is broken, or you've moved the file somewhere else, that could be the problem.
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Re: Inkscape error..help me
yes, by corrupt file i meant that the computer can't read it properly off the disk. which would mean an error opening a .svg file in notepad or other text editor...since .svg files are just plain text files anyway.
so by sounds of it the file opens ok, and we can have a look at the svg structure when it's uploaded as Brynn suggested.
Also some further explanation could assist...when the error is thrown up in inkscape, does inkscape still essentially load (and show) the diagram/drawing, or does inkscape quit or just still show empty canvas?
which operating system and which version of inkscape etc?
so by sounds of it the file opens ok, and we can have a look at the svg structure when it's uploaded as Brynn suggested.
Also some further explanation could assist...when the error is thrown up in inkscape, does inkscape still essentially load (and show) the diagram/drawing, or does inkscape quit or just still show empty canvas?
which operating system and which version of inkscape etc?
Re: Inkscape error..help me
hi, i have just the same error!!
incredible. saving a file and then being unable to open it...
i opened it with worpad, and its look like: a lot of characters. but i think its not corrupted.
few things that maight have something to do with this error:
-I imported two PDF files, from a plot of a CAD file with foxit pdf printer.
one of them was unabled to move, dont know why.
- used a filter over a image.
- imported images not embebed, from diferent folders
- it was on my dropbox folder
after this error i entered dropbox for cheking if i had a previous version.
dropbox haves a feature to preview files. so i priviewed it.
thanksfully, it open a part of the drawing with this text:
public lik to the file.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5995774/folleto.svg
incredible. saving a file and then being unable to open it...
i opened it with worpad, and its look like: a lot of characters. but i think its not corrupted.
few things that maight have something to do with this error:
-I imported two PDF files, from a plot of a CAD file with foxit pdf printer.
one of them was unabled to move, dont know why.
- used a filter over a image.
- imported images not embebed, from diferent folders
- it was on my dropbox folder
after this error i entered dropbox for cheking if i had a previous version.
dropbox haves a feature to preview files. so i priviewed it.
thanksfully, it open a part of the drawing with this text:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 3045 at column 8: PCDATA invalid Char value 24
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
public lik to the file.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5995774/folleto.svg
Re: Inkscape error..help me
Hi jlgrobe,
Welcome to InkscapeForum!
I'm unable to open the file from that location. Any chance of uploading to forum? Otherwise, maybe someone else can grab it?
Welcome to InkscapeForum!
I'm unable to open the file from that location. Any chance of uploading to forum? Otherwise, maybe someone else can grab it?
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Re: Inkscape error..help me
jlgrobe wrote:(…)saving a file and then being unable to open it...
few things that maight have something to do with this error:
-I imported two PDF files, from a plot of a CAD file with foxit pdf printer.
The file is "broken" most likely due to (known and partially addressed) issues with PDF import. You can try to manually remove the text objects which are incorrectly encoded (in a plain-text editor), or try recreating the file with the current stable version 0.48.1 which has a related bug fixed that potentially prevents saving such broken SVG files (most likely the texts from the PDF file - which now have a broken encoding and cause the error - will be missing in Inkscape though).
The fixed version in the attached zip archive does open without error in Inkscape 0.48.0 and later versions (some text might be missing, since I deleted the lines which contained text with broken encoding).
- Attachments
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- folleto-test.zip
- (73.46 KiB) Downloaded 161 times
Re: Inkscape error..help me
Dragging the group with the mouse fails (possibly there are too many nested groups with complex transformation matrices - I didn't figure out).jlgrobe wrote:one of them was unabled to move, dont know why.
However, you can still move it using the cursor keys, or 'Object > Transforms > Move' or e.g. center it in one of the rectangular frames of the layout using 'Object > Align & Distribute…' (with an appropriate 'Relative to:' option).