On 2007-April-13 , at 21:56 , john cliff wrote:
On 4/13/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 03:51:56AM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
Is there some way to embed bitmaps in SVG? [...] Aside from that is there some way to get Inkscape to copy linked images to be side-by-side with the svg and use relative paths rather than absolute paths?
Not easily afaik.
Ummm, file>save as> type "Compressed Inkscape SVG with Media" Although it seems to be broken in my SVN copy on win, perhaps needs some TLC.
Does the w3c have some sort of .jar-like standard for creating svg bundles that include both a main svg and associated bitmaps and other linked content all-in-one? That seems like it would be the ideal solution.
Not that I know of, but note there's an 'inkjar' functionality buried in Inkscape itself for handling jar-based file collections. I believe this works pretty well, it's just poorly advertised. If you're interested in working on this, it could probably benefit from gaining better exposure in the File menu UI.
So that you can get the big picture, there was a very complete discussion about it on the devel list a while back: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=PM. 2082.1137873675%40pmweb6.uk1.bibliotech.net and some bits when discussing summer of code of last year: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3CDB9B0D- D2BB-46C4-A385-F5B6DDD08562%40joncruz.org These discussion were interesting, passionate some times, personally it made me change my mind two or three times ... but did not result in much change in Inkscape unfortunately. If you have time for it by any chance, I, for one, would be really happy to see this implemented! IMHO, the obvious but already very useful first step would be to add the possibility to embed imported bitmaps right from the import menu and to add a check mark there which retains its previous state (kind of like a general preference but without clutering the preference window).
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/