On 1/30/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...> wrote:
Technically, you can embed whatever you feel like.
Of course, it's up to the rendering software to decide what to do with them. Inkscape just passes on the raw image data to GTK+ and lets it deal with the pixmap and rendering.
"Conforming" viewers need to support png, jpeg and svg in the <image> element. Other things may work, depending on which software is showing it, the OS it is on, and even the version of libs & toolkits. However, to stay the most compatible, stick to just those three.
Not only does that makes sense, but they're also the most compatible formats, anyway, in the major platforms (Linux, MacOS and Windows), plus .png offers superb quality at good compression ratio, I couldn't say about .tga, .tiff and other "high res" formats, though.