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May 04, 2019, 11:39:30 PM
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Goldy

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Hi there people! I am new in this forum, but I am working (playing it is the correct word) with Inkscape many years now. I am mostly a mom, and my job has nonthing to do with programs or gadgets at all, though I work and understand a lot about them.  So, here is my problem. I have scaned an image book I had since I was a kid. One of the pictures, I decided to place it in an A4 page, resised so that I could have 5 of them in the page. I worked with the one I've input at first, and then I wanted to copy and paste the next 4. I 've managed to paste only two, and then I got the "image not linked" message in the frame of the next paste. Well... I have faced this problem before, and I could understand why, since I propubly was trying to work with images that didn't belong to me, and it was some kind of protection for the work that somebody else did. So far so good... but this time, the work is mine. I haven't download any of them and it's kind of disapointment.
Any suggestions as to why is this happening or how can I fix it?
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May 05, 2019, 04:25:24 AM
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Welcome to the forum!

It's not about who owns the image.  It's about Inkscape knowing where it is.  If you imported it into Inkscape, and later you decided to put that image in a different folder, well now, Inkscape doesn't know where it is.  It can't find it.  When you were working with someone else's image, it might have even been on a whole other computer.  There are 2 possible solutions.

When you first import the image, there's a little dialog which comes up, which you might just click through without looking.  But it asks if you want to link it or embed it.  If you see the "Linked Image Not Found" that means it's linked.  You could switch to embedding, and that would make it always available, no matter where you might take that SVG file later (or no matter where you might take the original raster image).

There is a caveat with embedding, and that is that it only takes a handful of imported raster images before you start to see performance issues with Inkscape.  The embedded raster images swell up the file size pretty fast.  As far as I understand, the more RAM you have, the more raster images you can embed, before the performance issues start.  You can only experiment to learn  how many works best for you.  There's not really any kind of optimal number.

Or the other solution, is to link it, and remember not to move the original image after you import it.

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Rather than importing it again, to be able to switch to embedded, you can select it, and then use Extensions menu > Images > Embed Images....
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May 12, 2019, 11:52:45 PM
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Thank you for your answer! The truth is that I open the file with Inkscape, and to this dialog option you mentioned, is on"embed".  Also, the copy-pastes are made at one work period. I mean I don't switch it off and on, so there isn't any chance to change file's folder in between. It just doesn't give me the 3rd and 4th pastes. Something else to mention is that I tryed to save it after every one paste I got alright... and it started to switch off by itself, after the 3rd time I have done it... it's like it understood the pattern of what I do, and doesn't work...
I don't know if this is too fictional... but it's like I have to cheat it, and try to do some work every two or three days... until it inderstand again the pattern and do it's things...  :hmm: 0:) :beg:
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May 13, 2019, 04:12:34 PM
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Hhmm....strange.  Sorry for misunderstanding before.

I've never seen an error message "image not linked" so I'm not sure what could be happening.  Is it possible to share the SVG file with us?  Then we could investigate what's happening in the file.

When you copy/paste, how do you do it?  Are you using the key shortcuts Ctrl C / Ctrl V ?  Or do you use the buttons on the command bar?

When you try to paste and it doesn't work, the error message "image not linked" could mean that there's nothing on the clipboard.  Although when I try it, Inkscape tells me "nothing on clipboard".   But you might try copying the image again.  Maybe that would work?  Did you try?

Could you share the image with us?  Maybe there's something wrong with the image?  We could test it.
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