Edit bitmap externally fails for relative links

[André Oliva]

Create a new file. Import a bitmap. Save the document in any folder, except in the default. Make a copy of that bitmap as a bitmap (Alt+B) [I do this for editing images in order to keep the original image unchanged]. Try to edit the bitmap externally. The external editor will launch an error message indicating that the file does not exist. I think that this is because Inkscape gives the name of the file to the bitmap editor without the path where is located the linked file.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

reproduced with Inkscape 0.47+devel r8898 on OS X 10.5.6

Making a bitmap copy stores the image with a relative link (no path information), and Inkscape fails to resolve relative file names for editing bitmaps externally.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@André - can you add information about Inkscape and OS version?

[André Oliva (gandreoliva)]

Sure. I'm running Inkscape 0.47 in Ubuntu 9.10.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Raising 'Importance' to 'Medium' and setting target milestone to 0.49:

In current trunk, image links are always relative if possible (linked bitmap image inside the document's directory or sub-directories), see bug #170225. Such linked images can no longer be edited externally (the bug as originally reported no longer exists: bitmap copies are embedded by default now).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Tested and reproduced with Inkscape 0.48+devel r10908 on OS X 10.7.2

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Not reproduced on Windows XP, Inkscape 11047. Relative links open correctly with Gimp.
Note that the win32 code is a bit specific (#ifdefed).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Fix committed, trunk revision 11053. Tested on XP and Ubuntu 11.04.
Don't hesitate to test and comment if something goes wrong.

[Kris (kris-degussem)]

The patch in attachment should do the backporting to 0.48.4.
I was not able to edit externally on trunk (vista 64 bit), so I can not really test it (anyone who can?).

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Patch from comment #8 tested on Debian testing, and backported to the branch, revision 9921.

@Kris - Testing on Windows is possible, you just need to add the gimp bin path to your PATH env. and rename the gimp26.exe file to gimp.exe.