> 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.

> 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. Bryce

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.

Copy, no. Use relative, yes. It always uses relative paths in xlink:href for images that are in the same dir or below (sodipodi:absref is just a fallback).