Greetings Forum,
I've got an SVG file, it was generated by a program which generates such things, its completely valid according to the W3C validator. If I try to open it or import it into Corel X5, X5 crashes. I send off a WER to Corel hopefully (it says it sends it but one never knows for sure.)
My system Win XP (32 bit, SP3), 3.5GB of RAM, 500+GB free hard drive space
Corel X5 - I am pretty sure it has SP2 applied it calls it self 10.2.0.661 in the About menu.
Its annoying that it can't read this file, the documentation claims svg support.
--Chuck
just to add to this conversation i also downloaded the svg file and tried to open it in X4. i got the same error messages as posted here and CorelDRAW crashed. this happened for opening, importing and dragging/dropping. only crashes.
was able to open the file in Illustrator then resaved with new name as an uncompressed svg. after this i was able to successfully open the file in CorelDRAW.
ghi
So I've put up the file that is at issue you can look at it in a browser by visiting:
http://robotics.mcmanis.com/foo.svg
I was wondering if it was a line termination issue (the file was generated on a Linux system) so I converted it to DOS line endings and its available as
http://robotics.mcmanis.com/foo2.svg
They display fine in a browser, if I try to open them or import them into X5 then X5 crashes and sends off an error report.
Thanks y'all for at least trying.
So Andrew could open it using Vista, but the original poster uses WinXP and so do I. I'm not real clear on why that should make a difference with CorelDraw, but maybe it's a clue for someone.
I'll try this on Chuck's file next, but it happens to me fairly often and there's no real way to predict. Some files are fine, and some do this. :(
Chuck said: http://robotics.mcmanis.com/foo.svg http://robotics.mcmanis.com/foo2.svg They display fine in a browser, if I try to open them or import them into X5 then X5 crashes and sends off an error report.
Both of these do bring Draw down for me too. One difference I noticed.. the file I tested earlier saved to my desktop with just .svg at the extension while the two foo files had an additional .xml extension(foo.svg.xml and foo2.svg.xml) . But now it's getting beyond my experience as I don't really know SVG. There must be something different in how they're defined but I've no clue what. They all just looked like cryptic xml to me when I did a view source on them.
silvershoes said: Thanks y'all for at least trying. So Andrew could open it using Vista, but the original poster uses WinXP and so do I. I'm not real clear on why that should make a difference with CorelDraw, but maybe it's a clue for someone. I'll try this on Chuck's file next, but it happens to me fairly often and there's no real way to predict. Some files are fine, and some do this. :(
Dragged and dropped from the Documents directory where I saved it.
Used XP & X5 (with all updates, SP's)
the 'dd'