Package: inkscape
Version: 0.45.1-1
Severity: normal
The SVG documents that inkscape produces are very non-portable
if you import any images. If so, the images are stored
as absolute pathnames.
Problems:
1) The images obviously will not be available if you just move the
output document.
2) Absolute path names prevent the obvious work-around:
keep everything in one directory and transport the entire
directory with the inkscape document.
For instance, my home directory at work is
/home/mint/gpk, and my home directory at home is
/home/gpk . However, inkscape's output looks like
this:
<image
id="image5663"
height="269.40012"
width="532.84857"
sodipodi:absref="/home/mint/gpk/2007repeated/realdata/foo0.png"
xlink:href="/home/mint/gpk/2007repeated/realdata/foo0.png"
x="1297.3975"
y="2141.3433" />
So, I'm out of luck. I have to hand-edit the XML file to even
take a drawing home from work. This is therefore a bug, not
just a wishlist item.
The problem is the GUI. The GUI that inkscape uses does not allow
the entry of relative path names, so one cannot even avoid generating
documents with absolute pathnames.
Recommendations:
1) Use a more flexible GUI, one that at least allows you to enter a relative
pathname.
2) Eventually, allow images to be included as part of the SVG file, rather than
just referenced.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcairomm-1.0-1 1.4.2-1 C++ wrappers for Cairo (shared lib
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgc1c2 1:6.8-1 conservative garbage collector for
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.18.0.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.13-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.12.10-0.1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.1-2 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.10.10-0.2 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared
ii liblcms1 1.16-6 Color management library
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8e-5 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070712-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.29.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.21-1 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii imagemagick 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1 Image manipulation programs
pn libwmf-bin <none> (no description available)
pn perlmagick <none> (no description available)
ii pstoedit 3.44-2 PostScript and PDF files to editab
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