# from Alan Horkan # on Sunday 22 January 2006 02:31 am:
Embedding seems like the more straighforward default for ordinary users but then there are questions of making the entire file format self contained and embedding Fonts, Videos, and all kinds of other information resulting in very large files. If images are embedded what else should be embedded? The inkjar files are working towards providing the kind of complete file format these users might want, perhaps it should be the default file format?
There have been a few mentions in this thread about embedding images as a final publishing stage. I'm thinking that this "publication" usage model doesn't really need to be considered in planning the image link/embed interface and behavior.
If you have the ability to create an inkjar or some other kind of archive document and a "File->package" command, linked images will be rounded-up into the package just like all of the other linked content.
--Eric