[xep-support] Linking From/To SVG Graphics

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Eliot,

> I haven't had a chance to experiment with the new SVG support in XEP,
> but I'm wondering what, if any, support it provides for creating links
> out of and into SVG graphics?

Currently, there is no support for links in SVG. There are serious technical
issues to prevent its easy implementation: the concept of linking is just
too different in SVG and in PDF/PostScript, and full implementation
is impossible (e.g one cannot have a non-rectangular hot area in PDF).

> For example, I would like to be able to
> make items in a flow chart links to either supporting documentation or
> other flow charts. By the same token, I would like to be able to link to
> specific graphic objects.

It looks very appealing indeed. We will see how it can be done; but in any
case, it is not going to appear soon - too many things have to be rearranged
inside XEP.

Regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX

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