inkscape-0.46 does a terrible job of reading in gnuplot's svg output. It doesn't actually show plots. This behaviour is well described in the bugs below. There are patches upstream, TWO at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/214171 and one more in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/174720 I've rebuilt inkscape from 0.46-r2 adding these three patches. They apply cleanly and solve the problem. Reproducible: Always
Sorry, I got those backwards - two small patches in the second bug, one patch in the first.
bumped in cvs, thanks for reporting. media-gfx/inkscape-0.46-r4 is a stable candidate (in 30 days).