Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re : New student project : better image management

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> wrote:

In Xara Xtreme for windows (4.0 and above) that's much simpler : every time you import an image it's automatically treated as a quadrangle with a bitmap fill (not as a clipped image).

Curiously, we had the exact same option: import images as fills. That was before we even supported clipping. When clipping was made usable, that option was removed for the sake of SVG purity: an image must be an image. Still, turning it into a fill is as easy as pressing Alt+I.