Yes Alt+I works well and about the shape management it's better than Xara which only creates a quadrangular shape not editable as the rectangle and quadrangle tool.
However tiling mode has two more features in Xara : Repeat inverted and Single tile - But I don't know if SVG allows this kind of pattern tiling ?
________________________________ De : bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> À : Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> Cc : J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...; steren.giannini@...400...; theadib@...2187....; inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Francois.Petit@...2281... Envoyé le : Mer 2 Décembre 2009, 16 h 05 min 49 s Objet : 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.