RE: Exporting shapes with images

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Marshall, Steven J. [mailto:Steven.Marshall@jhuapl.edu] wrote:
>
> I have a project that requires us to be able to make diagrams out of
> pre-defined images, and was hoping to use dia to accomplish 
> this task, as
> our group has used dia for uml diagramming in the past. It 
> would be nice to
> be able to make a sheet out of these images, so it would be 
> easy for others
> to accomplish this. However, my attempts to export shapes 
> with images in
> them and then make a sheet out of these shapes have failed 
> thus far: lines
> and other SVGs show up fine, the image is displayed in the 
> .png icon, the
> svg part of the shape has an xlink:href to the image, but the 
> images are
> non-existant when the shape is placed into a diagram. Is 
> there something
> else I should be doing? 

As far as I understand it, custom shapes cannot include images currently. If
you wish to check this out further take a look at the code in objects/custom
or the documentation in doc/custom-shapes. It looks like the shapes plug-in
which exports the shapes SVG file is including the xlink:href which the
custom shapes code can't handle.

Regards,
Rob.