Imagine for a moment:
- Joe User knows nothing about the SVG format other than it’s an image format.
- Starts a new document in Inkscape
- Imports a raster image (PNG) from the hard drive
- Saves image as SVG
- Uploads the SVG file to a clip art website
- Is baffled why the image displays fine on his computer in the browser but is blank for everyone else
Yes this could really happen. So how do we fix it?
- Warn during Import stage of local references?
- Warn during Save stage of local references?
- Embed raster as a data: url in the SVG source (breaking link with local file)?