Newbie - Inkscape Text to SCAL

[HeatherM]

It does look like an Ink47 issue. I created a new file on the other computer with Ink47 and had the same results as Larry's original file.

I have used 47 a little, but I always paste the elements I create in 47 into an Ink46 doc.

[firstcut]

Larry,
When I recreated this and ungrouped it (since ink.47 automatically groups when you convert to path), it imported fine for me in SCAL2. However, when I tried to leave it grouped, it crashed SCAL2. When I imported your file into SCAL1 grouped, I got the kind of distortion I would expect to see with a grouped file in SCAL1.
Are you using the latest version of ink .47? I ask because I had problems with text converted to paths acting goofy earlier versions of .47, but not later ones.

[Larry]

Ok, I did some tests:
Inkscape 0.4.7 is generating SVG files compliant to version 1.1.
Inkscape 0.4.6 is generating SVG files compliant to version 1.0.
SCAL seems to only be able to read SVG 1.0 files.
The difference in draw commands looks like this:
SVG 1.0 "M 90.0,90.0 L 180.0 90.0 ..." i.e. "M" for move to, and "L" for draw to.
SVG 1.1 "M 90.0,90.0 180.0 90.0 ..." i.e. You don't have to write "L" for succeeding line draws.

Trivial stuff, hopefully SCAL will be updated shortly since Inkscape 0.47 has a much
better interface for opening and saving files.

[firstcut]

I suspected this incompatibility back in August
http://forums.surecutsalot.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6957

However, it still doesn't seem very consistent. I am using .47 exclusively and I am not having these problems any more. My recreation of Larry's file works fine in SCAL, for me at least.