<div class="gmail_quote">I wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Everything has been going pretty smoothly until just now when I decided to add text to the SVG code.  The tags <text ...></text> with no content cause no problem but as soon as I put any text between the tags the script runs very slowly.  The PDF files are created but have zero content and I get no error returned from svg2pdf.</blockquote> <div>  Further information on the above problem: 1.  I said I got no error from svg2pdf.  In fact I get 'bus error' when I run it in the terminal. 2.  If I include only white space between the opening and closing tags, a valid PDF is created. 3.  If I write Chinese only between the tags, as below, a valid pdf file is created but the display is blank with no text: <text x="20" y="20" style="font-family:serif;font-size:18pt;" fill="black"> 自力更生 </text> 4.  If I write a mixture of Chinese and polytonic Greek, the PDF file is created but contains garbage and cannot be opened. 5.  Any single us-ascii or accented European character etc. or any combination of these causes a bus error. I hope someone has a solution, as things were looking very pretty indeed before I bumped into this hurdle. JD </div></div>