Are there any plans to support embedded bitmaps in inkscape?<br><br>I realize that being it an SVG editor (actually it is quickly becomming <span style="font-weight: bold;">THE</span>
SVG editor) it has to follow the standard, however I kind of thought
that the compressed file was similar to the OASIS specification in
terms of selfcontaining the main SVG vector grapic, plus any bitmaps
associated with the file. This could be very helpful especially to
share fully editable files as the bitmap path would be included with
the file itself. Just a thought, though.<br><br>Sure you can always
convert bitmaps into vectors and work from there, but the
bitmaps-&gt;vectors tend to lose quality, not to mention that the file
gets really heavy on the computer and actions such simply scrolling
(especially on &quot;lower end&quot; machines&quot;) can consume a lot of CPU cycles
as the vectors are calculated. I also realize that this would be
drifting a bit from the SVG specification and may no be what the
development team would actually want, but maybe supporting also this
kind of behaviour would prove to be beneficial too in the long run... I
don't know.<br>
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It's just a mere suggestion.<br>