On Wed 10 Jul 2019 03:48 -0000, manoj.bhargav333@gmail.com wrote:

I am a senior professional and work as a fine art illustrator, mostly rasters on gimp. I do use Inkscape alongside. since a couple of years i am working on patient education in hindi booklets 7 have more than 50 titles booklets to be published, 10 pages of 3x11" each. Illustrations, diagrams with devnagari text.

Two points:

My laptop lost its display and crashed with Ubuntu 19 and while converting os

What OS did you convert to? Ubuntu again? Do I understand that the laptop disk was readable, so that you could transfer files to the new machine?

I found my svg files are mere png's and uneditable.

Specifically, do you say that files with the /svg/ extension were not SVG files? Or that they were SVG, but without vector data, perhaps lists of pixels.

If you do not know how to answer, we may need to see an example file.

Andrew