I found the same problem. On windows I fixed it with installing Inkscape version 0.48 but I cannot do this under ubuntu 16.04. Therefore I wrote a script in python. There is my simple script for converting .svg images to .pdf_tex format:
''' Inkscape 0.92 have a bug while exporting svg image to pdf_tex. The pdf_tex my be quite usefull while writting manuscripts in Latex: https://waterprogramming.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/embedding-figure-text-into-a-latex-document/ The problems is because number of pages in pdf and pdf_tex and exported files usually differs (bug). Both options are possible: number of pages in pdf can be higher or lower to the number of pages, specified in pdf_tex file. Presented solution is tested on Ubuntu 16.04 and is written in python 2.7 (pypdf is only available for python 2). Run this script: put svg figure name as argument: python pdf_correct.py figure.svg Created on Thursday 6 Apr 2017. @author: Matic ''' import sys import os from pyPdf import PdfFileReader import re import shutil if len(sys.argv) != 2: print 'You must put figure name as an argument.' sys.exit() svg_name = sys.argv[1] pdf_name = svg_name.replace('svg', 'pdf') tex_name = pdf_name.replace('pdf', 'pdf_tex') # run inkscape and make pdf_tex # os.system('inkscape fig_sketch.svg --export-pdf fig_sketch.pdf --export-latex') os.system('inkscape %s --export-pdf %s --export-latex' % (svg_name, pdf_name)) # read number of pages in pdf file pdf = PdfFileReader(open(pdf_name,'rb')) n_pages_pdf = pdf.getNumPages() print '# pages in pdf: ', n_pages_pdf # find number of pages in pdf_tex file - use regular expresions pattern = re.compile('page=\d+') n_pages_tex = 0 with open(tex_name, 'r') as f: for line in f: res = re.search(pattern, line) if res: i = int(res.group().replace('page=', '')) n_pages_tex = max(i, n_pages_tex) # save line form page_line = line print '# pages in pdf_tex: ', n_pages_tex # make new, corrected pdf_tex file if it is needed tex_name_new = tex_name + '_new' if n_pages_tex < n_pages_pdf: # in this case you need to add/include additional pages with open(tex_name, 'r') as f_old: with open(tex_name_new, 'w') as f_new: for line in f_old: if '\end{picture}%' not in line: # rewrite almost all lines f_new.write(line) else: # add missing pages for i in range(n_pages_tex+1, n_pages_pdf+1): # page_line - use saved form of line res = re.search(pattern, page_line) old_part = res.group() new_part = 'page=%d' % i f_new.write(page_line.replace(old_part, new_part)) f_new.write(line) shutil.move(tex_name_new, tex_name) elif n_pages_tex > n_pages_pdf: # you need to delete included pages that not exist in pdf file with open(tex_name, 'r') as f_old: with open(tex_name_new, 'w') as f_new: for line in f_old: res = re.search(pattern, line) if res: # if 'page=' is in line, check the numeber i = int(res.group().replace('page=', '')) if i <= n_pages_pdf: f_new.write(line) # else: # you have a problem here, don't rewrite line to new file else: # rewrite all lines without 'page=' f_new.write(line) shutil.move(tex_name_new, tex_name) #else: # otherwise: do nothing, the number of pages is already the same in both files -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to inkscape in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1417470 Title: PDF+Latex export creates multipage pdf, pages missing Status in Inkscape: Confirmed Status in inkscape package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in inkscape package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: In 0.91 the z-order information in svg is used to create multipage PDF+LaTeX documents as per bug 771957. However, for the SVGs I have been converting to PDF+LaTeX in this way, the TeX-file instructs to load more pages than the PDF has, for example the PDF has only three pages and the TeX file also includes page=4. This basically breaks the PDF+LaTeX export for me and I have to use EPS+LaTeX + epstopdf package. The bug occurs on OpenSuse 13.1 and Windows 8.1. Attached a zip file with two svg files and their broken PDF+LaTeX counterparts. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1417470/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
