Hello:
I am using Inkscape to create button icons. Many of them are simple compositions of other images. For example, to make a 'new-window' icon I would like to reference the .svg file for a plus sign over a reference to the .svg file of a window.
Currently I create a new .svg file and copy-in the required elements. But, this makes it tedious to change an element (the plus-sign, for example) because I have to visit all of the files into which I copied it.
So, is it possible to place a live reference to one .svg file from another.
I am stuck on RedHat 4 using Inkscape 0.44 (Pity me.)
Bill
On Monday 16 November 2009 10:31:19 william.crocker@...2677... wrote:
Hello:
I am using Inkscape to create button icons. Many of them are simple compositions of other images. For example, to make a 'new-window' icon I would like to reference the .svg file for a plus sign over a reference to the .svg file of a window.
Currently I create a new .svg file and copy-in the required elements. But, this makes it tedious to change an element (the plus-sign, for example) because I have to visit all of the files into which I copied it.
So, is it possible to place a live reference to one .svg file from another.
I am stuck on RedHat 4 using Inkscape 0.44 (Pity me.)
Bill
No you aren't. You can download and install Slackware Linux 13, and download and compile Inkscape 47 rc3. That's what I did. I had to download a fistful of libraries etc. first but the list is on the slackbuild site.
So, is it possible to place a live reference to one .svg file from another.
I am stuck on RedHat 4 using Inkscape 0.44 (Pity me.)
Bill
No you aren't. You can download and install Slackware Linux 13, and download and compile Inkscape 47 rc3. That's what I did. I had to download a fistful of libraries etc. first but the list is on the slackbuild site.
Changing my version of Linux is not an option.
I tried downloading and building Inkscape 46, but very quickly got into referenced library determine-find-download-compile hell. I gave up after determining, finding, downloading and trying to compile my 12th library dependency.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHY I AM HERE.
I was just wondering about live .svg file references.
Bill
william.crocker@...2677... wrote:
So, is it possible to place a live reference to one .svg file from another.
I am stuck on RedHat 4 using Inkscape 0.44 (Pity me.)
Bill
No you aren't. You can download and install Slackware Linux 13, and download and compile Inkscape 47 rc3. That's what I did. I had to download a fistful of libraries etc. first but the list is on the slackbuild site.
Changing my version of Linux is not an option.
I tried downloading and building Inkscape 46, but very quickly got into referenced library determine-find-download-compile hell. I gave up after determining, finding, downloading and trying to compile my 12th library dependency.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHY I AM HERE.
I was just wondering about live .svg file references.
Yes it's possible but not with Inkscape. SVG is XML and you can include a piece of XML from another file via the entities declaration. It's a bit tricky to do and Inkscape is likely to save the resulting image as a single file. I don't see any way to do what you want within Inkscape.
william.crocker@...2677... wrote:
... So, is it possible to place a live reference to one .svg file from another.
Inkscape does not seem to support it (0.46+reasonably recent SVN), but in principle the image element should allow referencing an SVG file just as easily as a PNG file. Specifically, the standard requires at least PNG, JPEG and SVG support
See this bug for more information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168244
Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
william.crocker@...2677... wrote:
... So, is it possible to place a live reference to one .svg file from another.
Inkscape does not seem to support it (0.46+reasonably recent SVN), but in principle the image element should allow referencing an SVG file just as easily as a PNG file. Specifically, the standard requires at least PNG, JPEG and SVG support
See this bug for more information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168244
Yes. Looks like the same problem.
I am less demanding in that I do not need the composite .svg to work in other programs (like firefox) as my final product is a .png file which can be used as an application icon.
Bill
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