Here is the reply from the SVG list on multiple pages. Please post any thoughts on multple pages in Inkscape to this list.

Jon

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From: Craig Northway <craign@...512...> To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...>, www-svg@...157... Subject: Re: Multiple Pages in SVG 1.2 + Hyperlinking Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:49:16 +1000

Jon Phillips wrote:

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I'm trying to figure out how to implement Multiple Pages in Inkscape (www.inkscape.org), and wonder if there is a good way to allow for hyperlinking between pages, and thus to make pages individual documents that can be linked together by a master docuent using the current syntax,

<pageSet> <page> <!-- graphics for page 1 go here --> </page>

 <page orientation="90">
   <!-- graphics for page 2 go here -->
 </page>

 <page>
   <!-- graphics for page 3 go here -->
 </page>

</pageSet>

If the above <page>...</page> could be:

<page xlink:href="page3.svg" />

or

<page xlink:href="fallCatalog.svg#page3" />

That would be brilliant for implementation, as SVG files with multiple pages would become huge. Also, by having multiple pages as multiple files, this could allow for easier reusability between documents/presentations/animations/slide shows.

Comments or feedback?

Jon

Jon,

Why can't you just do this

<page> <use xlink:href="somefile.svg#page3/> </page> <page> <use xlink:href="someotherfile.svg#page4/> </page>

Where in somefile.svg/someotherfile.svg there is something like:

<g id = "page3"> ... </g>

or

<svg id ="page3"> ... </svg>

It seems to me that you suggestion is fairly redundant, or have I misunderstood?

It's also intended that paginated documents, particularly large ones, should have streamedContents (section 9.2 1.2 in the current specification) set to "discard" to facilitate implementations destroying data from the previous page after rendering. So the size of the document won't be as much of an issue for the renderer, providing content generators take heed of this suggestion.

Craig