On 03/09/2012 10:08, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
Another thing that came up was that it would make a huge difference if everyone would automatically reload external dependencies when changed. For example, suppose you have an SVG with a bitmap inside that is simply linked to an external PNG or so. You could then be working on the PNG in the GIMP and each time you saved it would automatically update in Inkscape.
Such a workflow is already supported by Inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#Editing_bitmaps_in_an_external_editor If a linked bitmap image file changes on disk, it is automatically updated in Inkscape [1].
Note: JazzyNico added support for externally editing linked bitmap images (via context menu entry of a linked bitmap image) for the Windows port of Inkscape in trunk: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/262617
~suv
[1] (exception: the clones of such linked bitmap images currently are not updated without extra efforts: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/822468)