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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Bob,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I saw George already answered to your question this early morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With the extension George mentioned you are able to edit embedded SVG images too. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So if you add an empty SVG-Element to your content and execute that function, you are able to create a new SVG image.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>That’s not nice at the moment, but it’s not a hard work enhancing this functionality that way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This functionality works with any SVG editor (Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator are used in my projects) and it works with any XML flavor which supports embedded SVG (not DITA only).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SVG images are always embedded to your XML content file and aren’t referenced to file system.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Our first thinking of implementing this extension was a reuse of existing images in different contexts. You want to create one single image, enhance it and use it in different manners. As this SVG is embedded we don’t think about any reuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Perhaps in DITA it could make sense to enhance the reuse potential by using conref functionality, but this of course depends on the requirements, concepts and processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’m not sure about your use case(s). Could you provide more information, please.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Markus Wiedenmaier<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:red;mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:DE'>p</span></i></b><b><i><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>ractice <span style='color:#0070C0'>i</span>nnovation</span></i></b><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><br>DE-78259 Mühlhausen – Ehingen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'>Email: </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><a href="mailto:markus.wiedenmaier@practice-innovation.de"><span lang=EN-US>mailto:markus.wiedenmaier@practice-innovation.de</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:DE'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>