Wrong characters in imported PDF

confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape rev 21627

duplicate of bug #369861: Unable to open previously imported pdf file?

steps:
1) open attached 'problematic_file.pdf'
2) save page as svg file
3) reopen 'problematic_file.svg' with Inkscape
4) error message: 'Failed to load the requested file /Volumes/blue/img/Inkscape/test/bug/394472-problematic_file-p1-LeWitt.svg'

console msgs:

/Volumes/blue/img/Inkscape/test/bug/394472-problematic_file-p1-LeWitt.svg:299: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xA0 0xA2 0xA0 0x50
             id="tspan2977">@BDFH���P</tspan><tspan
                                 ^

and tons of 'parser error: PCDATA invalid Char value…' like:
/Volumes/blue/img/Inkscape/test/bug/394472-problematic_file-p1-LeWitt.svg:3612: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 30
             id="tspan4515">

 &quot;

 </tspan><tspan
                                                  ^

sorry, white space gets lost in the html-formatting of the comments, see attached logfile for the console output.

another related bug #305741: inkscape crashes during pdf import?

steps:
1) open 2nd test file from bug #305741 <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22546261/Sch%C3%A9ma%20%C3%A9olien%20-%20Avifaune.pdf> with inkscape
   (I tried both 'Replace PDF Fonts' options - made no difference re encoding)
2) save as svg
3) reopen in inkscape fails (no crash)

console msg:

/Volumes/blue/img/Inkscape/test/bug/305741-Avifaune-LeWitt.svg:32491: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xBF 0xE9 0x0D 0xAC
               id="tspan22342">��
                               ^

comments #5, #7: tested with Inkscape 0.46+devel r21714, OS X 10.5.7

workaround found!

I have also run into the same problem with Inkscape 0.47pre4 r22446, built Oct 15 2009 which is presently in ubuntu 9.10 (AMD64). Interestingly, I have found a workaround: open the PDF in Evince and print it to svg. Then when you open the file in Inkscape, fonts are OK (see attached file).

Maybe our beloved developers should take a look at how Evince does the trick, and implement it upon import of pdf... (I'm not skilled enough in programming to do this myself, unfortunately)

Looks like the encoding issue reported in Bug #499257 (saves svg file, that it can't read afterwards).

The bug is still present in Inkscape 0.47+devel r9404

I opened just another PDF in inkscape and noticed, that that only diacritic signs are wrong encoded. There were no errors nor warnings while opening from terminal.

Inkscape Inkscape 0.47+devel r9441 on ububntu 10.04

Repro with internal import, but works with Poppler/Cairo.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Inkscape 0.92pre1 15054 (GTK3)