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Originally Posted by AlanG
A work-around which usually succeeds is to use Foxit to "print" a page at a time to a PDF pseudo printer (I use the free PDF24). Then read the single-page PDF into Inkscape. I have just tried this for one of the wings of the Canon Wyvern, and it came out fine.
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Excellent tip. Doing that entails several layers of data conversion: from PDF to Foxit's internal data structures to Foxit's version of PDF to Inkscape's internal data structure (which was designed to perfectly handle SVG, not PDF); the end result could avoid the original bug - perhaps just by being simpler, thus avoiding some subtlety in the PDF standard not correctly handled either by Inkscape or the PDF creator.
However, data loss is possible, for instance in colorspace conversion, and transforming gradients and masks from vector to raster. Although the file is visually ok, this could limit the range of editing which prompted the use of Inkscape in first place.