Hi. I'm posting this because I'm wonder if there exist bug repports on those entioned in title and also if there is a better workaround.

This is only relevant to Inkscape 1.2 and it's support for multipage svg files.

Issue 1 - clones loose position and size

Steps to reproduce:

• Have a svgz file that contains an object with several clones.
• Close any open Inkscape windows still open if any, open a new blank instance of Inkscape.
• Open file explorer, navigate to the svgz file and drag'n drop it into Inkscape program window.
• In the dialog box, choose «Add SVG as new page(s) in the current file».

Expected results: All objects should maintain its originally position and size.

Actual result: Clones get misplaced and also each of them seems to be smaller. The clones seems to have a tendency of being placed more to right side and being more spread.

Issue 2 : objects from hidden layers became visible

Steps to reproduce (only first step is actually different from the last one):

• Have a svgz file that contains several layers, some of the layers must be hidden and also contain printable objects within the canvas.
• Close any open Inkscape windows still open if any, open a new blank instance of Inkscape.
• Open file explorer, navigate to the svgz file and drag'n drop it into Inkscape program window.
• In the dialog box, choose «Add SVG as new page(s) in the current file».

Expected results: Only objects that belong to visible layers should be imported.

Actual result: All objects in layers that aren't supposed to be visible is also being imported.

Current workaround for both issues.

Open two instances of Inkscape.  The main instance is the one that is supposed to contain multiple pages.

In main instance, for each new page, I .

For each file (the files I work on are single page files) I want to import, I do the following:

• manually create a new page and set it's size and orientation.
• Alt+Tab back to the secondary Inkscape instance (or just open the svg file from explorer, this doesn't matter) that is opened the svg file I'd intend to import.
  • Unlock any locked layers that isn't hidden so I'm able to get all visible objects.
  • Zoom out so I can see the whole page.
  • Select tool: Manually box select the whole page, hit Ctrl+C
• Alt+Tab back to main instance
  • Paste from clipboard.
  • Snap to page corner (All of the pages on work files have a layer where only purpose being covered by a white rectangle - to prevent transparent png images)

I'm not seeing any reports to address these issues, please file reports at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues.

Thank you. I've made two bug repports:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/7553

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/7554