Trouble saving

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slafaive
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Trouble saving

Postby slafaive » Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:52 pm

Hi all.

I'm having trouble saving my files. If I save it as a SVG, it shows up in my folder as an unknown file type. (Now it says that it can't load the file...) If I try to save it as a PDF, the same thing happens. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I tried removing the program and then reinstalling it, but to no avail.
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shawnhcorey
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Re: Trouble saving

Postby shawnhcorey » Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:31 pm

What OS?
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slafaive
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Re: Trouble saving

Postby slafaive » Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:53 am

Windows XP
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slafaive
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Re: Trouble saving

Postby slafaive » Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:29 am

No thoughts on this yet? Bummer...
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slafaive
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Re: Trouble saving

Postby slafaive » Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:39 am

OK, so this is weird. I still have trouble opening that one SVG document, but if I just manually rename the files .PDF and .SVG, they are no longer unknown file types (the icons turn to pdf and inkscape images) and they open with no problem. Guess that was easy...
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Re: Trouble saving

Postby shawnhcorey » Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:42 am

Sorry, I haven't worked with Windows for a long time. All I can think of is that your Registry is not correct but I don't know how to fix it. If you open the SVG file with notepad, do you see the XML? The first two lines should look like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Created with Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) -->
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