On Friday, March 7, 2008, 5:26:53 PM, Hannes wrote:

HS> Dear all,

HS> I recently noticed that embedded bitmaps in SVG files exported from HS> (Windows) Corel X3 (=v.13) get the windows-typical backslashes rather HS> than forward slashes in their file references in the generated SVG HS> files. Therefore these files do not show the bitmaps when opened on HS> Inkscape in Linux. It can be fixed by manually replacing the forward HS> slashes by backslashes (which is tedious, however). HS> Is that defined in the SVG standard?

The SVG standard uses URIs, which are defined by the IETF in RFC 3986 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3986.html

and these do not use backward slashes (regardless of operating system).

HS> Is Corel goofing,

yes

HS> or is inkscape HS> not correctly considering files generated on a different platform? HS> Shouldn't there be a platform-independent standard for the path names?

HS> PS: I recently got note from microUgly that the Windows version of HS> Inkscape also produces backslashes.

That would also be a goof.