Auto-update clones of linked bitmap images when linked image was changed on disk
Bug #822468 reported by
su_v
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
Confirmed
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Low
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Bug Description
I have an svg that contains some imported bitmaps as objects.
All of them are linked, not embedded. Additionally most have clones.
I am now looking for the best way to make Inkscape update the svg
whenever the sources have changed.
If I quite and reload the file, it works perfectly., but i hope there is a faster
way to di it.
Thanks in advance.
(originally filed as question:
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Which Inkscape version on which OS/platform do you use?
Inkscape does auto-reload externally edited linked bitmap images since 0.47: wiki.inkscape. org/wiki/ index.php/ Release_ notes/0. 47#Editing_ bitmaps_ in_an_external_ editor>
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(supported on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X).
I can confirm though that the clones are not auto-updated as well and still display the original version of the linked bitmap image. There seems to be no way within Inkscape to trigger the update (bar from duplicating or copy&pasting the clone). Not even relinking the clone to the copied bitmap image after the auto-update does trigger an update of the image displayed by the clone, nor does opening a duplicate window on the same file (menu 'View > Duplicate Window').
(Tested with Inkscape 0.48.1 and 0.48+devel r10530 on Mac OS X 10.5.8).
Converting the question into a bug report - there should be either a way to manually trigger the update of clones of linked images beyond saving & reverting or saving & reloading the SVG file, or the auto-update function of the linked image needs to search the file for possible clones (and clones of clones …) of the updated image and refresh their content, too.