SVG corrupt / not valid. Please help!

davidraphael · Postby **davidraphael** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:31 pm

Hi all,

I'm about to pop with frustration.

An SVG created in Inkscape suddenly decided that it won't open. My backup file has the same issue.

Inkscape reports:
"Failed to load the requested file"

If I try to open it in Illustrator I get:
"The SVG is invalid. Invalidate it before opening"

I've also tried running WC3 Markup Validation Service which finds the following errors:

"Validation Output: 5 Errors
Error Line 55716, Column 68: AttValue: ' expected
gHZ7XoAwpKWIQb7uzXOkg+T2/R/Xb6+326Iql2mmFAFx22p+fgWXAce27zEHUYjpgkBp

Error Line 55716, Column 68: attributes construct error
gHZ7XoAwpKWIQb7uzXOkg+T2/R/Xb6+326Iql2mmFAFx22p+fgWXAce27zEHUYjpgkBp

Error Line 55716, Column 68: Couldn't find end of Start Tag image line 403
gHZ7XoAwpKWIQb7uzXOkg+T2/R/Xb6+326Iql2mmFAFx22p+fgWXAce27zEHUYjpgkBp

Error Line 55716, Column 68: Premature end of data in tag g line 65
gHZ7XoAwpKWIQb7uzXOkg+T2/R/Xb6+326Iql2mmFAFx22p+fgWXAce27zEHUYjpgkBp

Error Line 55716, Column 68: Premature end of data in tag svg line 4
gHZ7XoAwpKWIQb7uzXOkg+T2/R/Xb6+326Iql2mmFAFx22p+fgWXAce27zEHUYjpgkBp"

Can anyone help me?

best

dR

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:10 pm

Qs:

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:17 pm

Also,

Local, external or network drive?
Any defrag software running?
Any backup software running?

davidraphael · Postby **davidraphael** » Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:48 pm

OS: WinXP
Local drive
inkscape version: 0.48 (and previous version)
antivirus is Eset nod32 but it wasn't running
no defrag or backup software running
Embedded graphics (png and jpg - see below)
files could not be opened at all

After losing yet another file, I tried an experiment.

I opened the file in notepad, stripped away the element that causes the line error(s) - in this case an embedded PNG - and added XML end-tags.
The file now opens again, but is missing much of the information.

I tried the same method with another 'corrupted/unvalidated' file. Again, it proved to be errors caused by embedded graphics, this time JPEGs.
And again, most of the file's information is lost, so I more-or-less have to start over.

Why is Inkscape not handling embedded graphics? Is this a known error?

This issue has cost me a lot of time and money so far. Incredibly frustrating.

dR

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:34 am

Here are a couple of test files with embedded jpegs. I'd try to open them, then save and try to re-open them.

tylerdurden · Postby **tylerdurden** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 12:35 am

Perhaps you can upload a sample svg or a sample of the jpegs you are using.

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:09 am

Hi.

Am I getting it right, that your svg is more than 55716 lines long?
Sounds like it was too large and inkscape couldn't handle it, and chopped it somewhere before the end, resulting in a corrupted svg file -end tags are missing.

Probably you could avoid this by not embedding images -not that it has anything wrong with it, but in this case those added too much data to the codes if I get it right.

The only thing to improve inkscape's performance is to move to a 64bit os and using the Partha compiled 64bit version of inkscape.
Still it won't give you a 100% reliable solution, just about a four time more reliable performance.
http://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=90.msg462#msg462

ragstian · Postby **ragstian** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:05 am

Hi

Lazur Urh;

Still it won't give you a 100% reliable solution, just about a four time more reliable performance.

What does this mean, exactly?
A four times better performance or four times more reliable or a combiantion of both?

Just for your info; 64 Bits is NOT four times the size of 16 Bit.
Every time you add ONE bit you double the size!
64 bit is 281474976710656 times bigger than 16 bit. [ 2^(64-48) ]

: bin.png (9.26 KiB) Viewed 4840 times

RGDS
Ragnar

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:12 am

Hi Ragnar,

I was referring to Brynn's experience and the comparison between those two, in that link.
Personally I couldn't see even that much of a change.
There was an svg in that topic below 1 MB that could crash the 64 bit version easily.

ragstian · Postby **ragstian** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:18 am

Hi Lazur.

Ok, that explains it! Interesting - will have to experiment more with the 64-bit Inkscape version.
Sorry for the post then!!

RGDS
Ragnar

Lazur · Postby **Lazur** » Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:24 am

No worries, eventually that svg had problems with the garbage collector inkscape has, and I have no idea how it is enhanced by the 64bit version.
Maybe it is alot better with images? Now on linux I cannot test it.

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