>> Thanks David!

You're more than welcome.

>> How to handle this and another embeded files? we need to ask to the user if want to include a description tag to the imported root element with the origin of the file?

Interesting... This has some connection to what I was thinking:

Suppose I want to import a pdf plot, e.g. figure.pdf.

I would do `File > Import`, and once the "PDF import Settings" menu pops up,

I was thinking on a simple "check option" that, when checked, it would automatically write the path of the imported figure (/home/user/path_to_the_figure/figure.pdf) directly onto the "Href" field under "Object attributes" (for instance, or in any other place).

Once the project is saved and closed, the user can re-open the project, do right click on the figure, click on "Link properties" and view the path for the imported figure in the "Href" field. Then go to that path and modify the gnuplot or python scripts that generate that plot.

Please let me know if there are other ideas.

On 24 September 2018 at 16:35, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...> wrote:

Thanks David!

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carrasco de Busturia <davidcarrascobustur@...400...>
To: jabier.arraiza@...2893..., inkscape-devel@...1784...sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Location path for an imported figure
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:38:31 +0100

Hi Jabier,

Thank you very much for your email.

I have opened the bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1794072

All the best,
David

On 24 September 2018 at 11:52, Jabier Arraiza <jabier.arraiza@...2893...
>
wrote:

> Hi David.
>
> ¿Could you open a bug in launchpad?
> Anyway, could be a problem about user data so need to be marked on
> import as optional?
>
> Regards, Jabier.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carrasco de Busturia <davidcarrascobustur@...400...>
> To: inkscape-devel@...1784...sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Location path for an imported figure
> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:35:41 +0100
>
> Dear All,
>
> I am finding `Inkscape` a really good tool for importing `PDF` or
> `EPS`
> scientific plots into a blank page, and then place arrows on top of
> the
> graphs, text, make scientific drawings assemble them in the desired
> location and then save as a unique PDF page that can then be included
> as a
> unique `figure` in a `latex` document.
>
> Let's imagine an inkscape project that has assembled 10 plots,
> imported
> from these folders:
>
> /path1/plot_1.pdf
> /path2/plot_2.pdf
> ...
> /path10/plot_10.pdf
>
> We already know that in /path1/ there is also the python, gnuplot,
> etc
> source code that produces the PDF plot, for instance:
>
> /path1/plot_1.py
> /path2/plot_2.gnu
> etc
>
> Most of the times I need to continue working over the original PDF
> plots
> that I once imported into a inkscape project I made back in time. For
> example, change the scale and the title of the plots, and so on. In
> other
> words, I need to go to the original source code (gnuplot, python,
> etc)
> that
> produces those plots that have been assembled in the inkscape
> project.
>
> In these situations, while having the nice inkscape project in the
> screen
> with all the plots 1 to 10, it is quite hard to remember where is the
> location of the original PDF plot.
>
> As far as I am concerned, there is no option in the inkscape
> interface
> that
> allows you to know which is the original location path of the PDF
> plot
> that
> was once imported into the inkscape project.
>
> The closest solution I could find is the following: every time I
> import
> a
> new PDF of EPS, I right click and and create a link which is
> basically
> a
> copy-paste of the location path of the figure.
>
> This solution is quite tedious and most of the times one forgets to
> create
> the link. Once the image is imported, the next natural step is to
> resize it
> and locate in the desired place, and it is very easy to forget to
> create
> the link.
>
> For instance, if this multi PDF plots assemble project was made in
> Latex,
> the location path of all the plots would be perfectly identified,
> i.e.
> in
> the `\includegraphics` line.
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to check an option in the importing
> process that would allow to automatically write the location path of
> the
> figure somewhere. Or any other strategy that would automatically
> write
> the
> location path every time a plot is imported. Would this be difficult
> to
> implement ?
>
> Thanks a lot for all your help,
>
> All the best,
> David
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