Thank you! Thank you! Thank you indeed, Sabrina!!
I certainly had not noticed the + and - signs. The nice thing is that I 
have - again - learned useful information today!
This works perfectly now.

Thomas


"Sabrina Kilian" <"ykgp at vtSPAM.edu"> schreef in bericht 
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>
> I tried exactly that just now in WinXP. Opened the .svg in Mozilla
> Firefox and clicked view source(1), selected all of it, copy and paste
> into notepad, save as .svg ANSI format. Inkscape opened the .svg file
> without any apparent problems.
>
> Tried the same thing with IE, and Inkscape refused to read it.
>
> And the reason is IE. When IE displays the file, it adds these nice + or
> - marks so you can expand or collapse certain parts of the xml and by
> default all of them are open. When you select all of it and copy, it is
> copying those marks too, which ruins the xml. So, if you must use IE,
> use 'view source' first, to get the raw xml instead of the pretty
> version that IE chooses to display. Tested this just now, and while the
> file does differ from the one copy and pasted with Firefox, it runs in
> Inkscake now.
>
> (1) had to view source, Firefox was kind enough to draw the svg as a
> picture instead of displaying the xml code. It might have had the same
> problem if it had displayed 'pretty xml' instead.

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