Although I haven't yet had time to pursue your links, I have just had a good look at Inkscape's "imaged" or "embedded" or "path-converted" font work: ....and am I ever impressed!! This comment comes by way of contrast with my existing SVG editor, though polemics is not the purpose here. It is simply first-rate work and kudos to the authors. (The importance of typography is too often under-rated.)

Your idea videlicit the on-line print media fits perfectly with current plans to establish a reputation as a "Paladin for SVG." A bit pretentious, but I am absolutely baffled by the failure of SVG to truly catch fire. Politics may be a factor. I can think of two Window's vendors who had a strong market position to capitalize on with SVG and didn't/haven't. I have had plans for a letter to John Dvoark at PC Magazine in the works concerning SVG for some time. Now is the time to act for Inkscape shows every indication of being, not an incidental reference in the SVG world, but rather the centre of attention.

The W3C aside, when you look at the fully developed mathematical implications of scalar and vector fields, the sky is the limit as it was/is the tool used to describe the real world by physcists up to esoteric matters. Texture is as always an issue, so, if the capability isn't already there, the ability to import a, for instance, .jpg file and stretch it like a latex sheet to fit within an object's boundaries is a major interest with me.

Thanks again for your response, and, though a presumptuous newcomer, please permit me a "tip of the hat" to a truly dedicated group who have produced a program of signficant quality which refuses to rest on its laurels--- a quality which has inspsired me to once again resume the battle to see SVG attain the high ground in vector graphics.