Following up on some of Pierres comments on SVG in the document pane I have been experimenting with inserting SVG images into the document pane.  SVG images generally take up less space than bitmap images.

 

However the problem is to get the image onto the page.

 

Copy and paste from Inkscape just inserts a frame (with re-size handles) which contains nothing.

 

Copy and paste from Internet Exploiter copies a bitmapped image.

 

If you edit the HTML code and insert the text of the SVG file then you get the image displayed correctly with the background colour showing through all the transparent bits, great, but this is more difficult than it should be and the image is also fragile.

 

Re-sizing the image or moving it can often cause it to disappear and/or mess up the rest of the page.

 

Upon inspection of the HTML code I found that the SVG code had been re-arranged and random bits of HTML code had been inserted into it ‽

 

But where it works it works well, just don't mess about with it once you have it displayed correctly :-

 

 

It would be nice if there was a better way of inserting an SVG image.