Thanks for the reply brynn. Inkscape crashes whether using "import" or just "open" to bring in the Mathematica pdf. I've been experimenting, and it seems to be a fonts issue. The pdf is a simple 2D plot of a function. If I remove all text (axes labels and numbers along the axes) ...

I'm using Inkscape 0.47 on Windows 7. I've created some graphs in Mathematica and exported as pdf. I'd like to import them into Inkscape to add some additional flourishes. The pdf opens just fine in Adobe reader or Foxit Reader, but won't import into Inkscape. Instead Inkscape crashes with this erro...