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8 Dec
2005
8 Dec
'05
5:58 p.m.
Quoting John Taber <jtaber@...480...>:
Why not just add a preference setting to save the linked images and then just keep the same file extension (svg)
Because a ZIP file isn't valid SVG (even if it contains some).
However, there are ways to embed bitmap images in normal SVG (via data: URIs), and I believe we support that already (though I don't think we have UI for selecting this option yet). Note that using data: URIs means we've got to base64-encode the image data, so it's not really suited for very large images.
-mental