Hi, I have been testing the development version of synfig on Windows 7 and Kubuntu 13.10 and importing a SVG in Ubuntu failed while it worked on Windows 7. Oddly enough, it worked fine when running synfig on Kubuntu 13.10 Live CD session.
So, I tried to find the differences between the live version and the installed one and found that I could solve it editing the launch script and clearing LC_NUMERIC (was es_ES.UTF-8) before running synfig.
[code]#!/bin/sh
PREFIX="/opt/synfig"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${PREFIX}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export SYNFIG_ROOT=${PREFIX}/
export SYNFIG_MODULE_LIST=${PREFIX}/etc/synfig_modules.cfg
export LC_NUMERIC=
$PREFIX/bin/synfigstudio “$@”
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Hope this helps anyone having the same problem.
Cheers!