Why would built-in raster functionality create anything different than what you would get by doing your raster bits inside an external editor (i.e. GIMP) and importing the results into Inkscape?
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>> Raster Functionality in Inkscape
>> by Christopher Brown, mentored by Theodore J. Gould
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>I'm curious about this one because the writeup basically says this
>will create things that aren't SVG. Is there a plan to make a new
>file extension at some point? It would still be mostly SVG, just
>augmented with extra stuff. The Inkscape-specific extension
would be
>like a warning -- "This is not plain vanilla svg and may not render
>correctly as such". Kinda like how .ai files are mostly just regular
>.ps files, but if it doesn't look right in your .ps viewer, you know
>you should try it in Illustrator.
>
>--bb