Inkscape latex symbols

I am having issues creating latex symbols in inkscape. I get the following error;
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "eqtexsvg.py", line 157, in <module>
e.affect()
File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 215, in affect
self.effect()
File "eqtexsvg.py", line 151, in effect
svg_open(self, svg_file)
File "eqtexsvg.py", line 81, in svg_open
doc = inkex.etree.parse(filename)
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2954, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:56220)
File "parser.pxi", line 1533, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:82303)
File "parser.pxi", line 1562, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:82596)
File "parser.pxi", line 1462, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:81635)
File "parser.pxi", line 1002, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:78544)
File "parser.pxi", line 569, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:74488)
File "parser.pxi", line 650, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:75379)
File "parser.pxi", line 590, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:74712)
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Document is empty, line 1, column 1
Investigation of this issue reveals that both a .dvi and a .ps file is created successfully with the formula, but pstoedit seems to produce an empty .svg file.
Can anyone shed some light onto why pstoedit seems to fail? I have used this functionality not long ago, am I missing something?

Neat, this inspired me to try the Latex Inkscape extension because I never knew about it. I got the same behaviour as you. When I tried running "pstoedit -f plot-svg eq.ps eq.svg" in the temporary directory myself, I got:
pstoedit: version 3.60 / DLL interface 108 (built: Sep 12 2011 - release build - g++ 4.6.1 20110819 (prerelease) - 32-bit) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2011 Wolfgang Glunz
Error: /undefined in --get--
Operand stack:
140 (E) (E) --dict:9/18(ro)(L)-- FontName
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1892 1 3 %oparray_pop 1876 1 3 %oparray_pop 1771 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1892 1 3 %oparray_pop 1876 1 3 %oparray_pop 1771 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- () --nostringval-- %string_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1159/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:294/300(L)-- --dict:86/300(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 63762
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 256 executed command : /usr/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS "/tmp/inkscape-fRXy2z/psinJGY0X7"
The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed !
It seems like the current ghostscript is newer than what pstoedit expects. Haven't managed to fix it though :S.

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