Cannot Load WMF File to Inkscape without it closing and crashing

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Do you have the most recent version of inkscape ? Can you share a file that makes inkscape crash (or a backtrace) ?

I got InkScape (0.91 version) yesterday and believe that I have the latest
version of it. Attached is the file that I cannot open with InkScape.

Let me know if you have better luck and/or know the problem.

Thanks in advance,
John

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:49 PM, John Port <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I got InkScape (0.91 version) yesterday and believe that I have the latest
> version of it. Attached is the file that I cannot open with InkScape.
>
> Let me know if you have better luck and/or know the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Mc <<email address hidden>
> > wrote:
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>> Your question #263913 on Inkscape changed:
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I got InkScape (0.91 version) yesterday and believe that I have the latest
version of it. Attached is the file that I cannot open with InkScape.

Let me know if you have better luck and/or know the problem.

Thanks in advance,
John

On 2015-03-20 20:07 (+0100), John Portnov wrote:
> Attached is the file that I cannot open with InkScape.

Unfortunately, Launchpad's Answer section does not support attachments - could you upload the file to a free file sharing services (e.g. Dropbox) and share the link here?

I have just sent you an email with the link to the WMF source file
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22kxob0phnn73te/test12.wmf?dl=0

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks in advance.

On 2015-03-20 22:07 (+0100), John Portnov wrote:
> I have just sent you an email with the link to the WMF source file
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/22kxob0phnn73te/test12.wmf?dl=0

Crash confirmed with Inkscape 0.91 r13725 and 0.91+devel r14020 on OS X 10.7.5. UniConverter 1.1.5 also fails to open the file.

The file format by the way is not WMF as suggested, it seems to be an EMF file:

$ file test12.wmf
test12.wmf: Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF) image data version 0x10000

Renaming the file to test12.emf and attempting to open it in Inkscape doesn't produce a crash, but fails to load with a different error (Inkscape itself does not crash).

Even if the file turns out to be damaged (or otherwise unsupported by Inkscape), the application should not crash (instead, it should notify the user that it fails to open the file).

I will convert this question into a bug report, and attach your test case there, so that someone from the dev team can take a closer look.

You can try and open them like this: http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/pages/wmf-file/ with PaintShop Pro and check if the issue is within the file, or the software itself.