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Inkscape crashes when trying to open a PDF file

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape passing a specific PDF as parameter

What happened?

Starts to open, show the "import page", then reports an error telling it's being closed. At terminal level a segfault is shown:

$ inkscape logo.pdf Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. Segfault

What should have happened?

Open the PDF to import

Inkscape Version and Operating System:

  • Inkscape Version: Inkscape 0.92.3 (2405546, 2018-03-11)
  • Operating System: KDE Neon
  • Operating System version: KDE neon User Edition 5.16, under Ubuntu Bionic

File that triggers the problem: logo.pdf

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