SVG faulty output of Print() with multiple histos on canvas

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Hello everybody,
I am printing several histograms into SVG files. Whenever I print a single histogram into a file everything is fine.
On the other hand when I print a second histogram on a canvas and then use Print() to have both the histos plotted it happens that I get faulty SVG.
This is not happening if I ask for PDF or PNG files or any other image output I tried.

Opening the faulty SVG with firefox yields the followig error

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///mnt/usb2/sync/Desktop/hWW/mET_components.svg
Line Number 150, Column 5:mET_
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the faulty file is attached (please trim the txt extension due to forum posting limitations)

Any clue of what is wrong with this?
mET_components.svg.txt (12.2 KB)

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This is not possible, SVG files are like EPS, GIF, JPG files, they can have only one picture in it. They are meant to display 2D graphics on a web page with a high level definition using vector graphics.

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one canvas -> one SVG

but many histos can be put on a single canvas. so many histos on a SVG

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And that should work. I just tried, it is fine for me (I cannot post the result here because the forum software does not allow the extension.svg).
Do you have a small macro reproducing the problem ?

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I found what it was. SVG are just more sensitive to mistakes …
I had the title of the histo set by a variable. This variable was not converted into a string or a char, so a weired character was sometime appearing in the title name. Therefore the SVG sometime resulted not valid, while other times was ok, depending on how the non-char variable was translated in a char.

Other file formats, even vectorial one like PDF and EPS did not care about the mistake, while SVG did.

thanks for the replies.
roberto