Comment 16 for bug 1278645

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David Mathog (mathog) wrote :

I think it is OK to apply it to trunk.

In the related thread on the developer's list somebody said that LaTEX doesn't actually do image output. Consequently, this patch cannot break LaTEX. I never use LaTEX, but I was curious to see why it was not implemented. The reason seems to be that LaTEX implements images through a sort of "include" mechanism which operates on external files. It has some primitive placement and scaling options to go with the include. So if Inkscape were to support this it would have to write the LaTEX file and N separate image files in some other format. Not that that would be all that hard to do, just convert them to PNG and save them, making up some sort of UUID like name to apply for each.