As in title. It appears that once a file is in Inkscape (importing or drag 'n drop), there is no way to tell what its file name was in Win Explorer.

This would be useful when importing many files into one project and if you interrupt the work and return to it later, you could identify the image file to continue working on project.

It would be tedious to manually enter the data into each object's properties. 😰

This would be a good feature request. https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/how-to-report-bugs-or-request-new-features/

As mentioned in a related topic, for linked images, status bar displays the path of image, as does in xml editor xlink:href property.

btw : are you using grid tab in align and distribute panel to assemble your bitmap. If not, I'd give it a try.

It might be a better idea to use the svg data-* attribute instead.

<title> and <desc> tags would be present in the final svg. 

They can be stripped, however then you might end up stripping wanted <title> and <desc> tags.

data-* is transparent to other programs.

It can also have custom names such as data-originalpath or data-originalfilename.

As a workflow, it's fairly easy to flip between the layers pane and the xml editor ( which would show the data-*) in the lower pane.

Using keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Shift+L and Ctrl+Shift+X

David248

" for linked images, status bar displays the path of image"

Not the file name as it is shown in Win Explorer. In the attachment pic here, the selected image element name in win explorer is something like 1026_2.png, not the 'Image 60 x 320' 

The path might be shown if I imported the image element, but the only sensible way to add the images here is to drag and drop them. I did check file import method and it also didn't track the file name as shown in the panel on right in object or image properties, didn't check the status line but as I said, I can't use piecemeal import since we are talking about adding hundreds of files. 

BTW I can't even drag and drop more than a single file since they end up on top of each other and there is no way to sort them out sequentially. I will try if import of multiple files can be done and if the images are sorted, not overlapping.

TylerDurden

"It would be tedious to manually enter the data into each object's properties."

I would only enter file name at the end of working session, so that when I return to it next day, I am able to find the next file in sequence to continue the job. There is 1200 objects 60x480 pixels in this particular game map image and you just can't locate the next file in sequence by visual inspection. 

Currently I just keep win explorer window open till the job is finished and during the times off, I don't touch it so the file doesn't lose selection focus, also make a file note in a notepad just in case...

I know this is probably an odd way to use Inkscape, probably 99% of jobs people do in it doesn't require keeping track of image files outside of the program.

inklinea

It might be a better idea to use the svg data-* attribute instead. <title> and <desc> tags would be present in the final svg. 

This is over my head but I get more or less what you mean. But once the map image is assembled, I no longer need to know the win explorer file names of its elements. Those are needed only during the map image assembling so as not to lose track of which image element comes next.

In the attachment here, it is not as critical since if you display Extra Large Icons in win exp., you can more or less visually identify the elements or count to them from some image that you can visually trace. Also there are 'only' 94 files in the win exp., directory in this particular case.

TylerDurden

This would be a good feature request. https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/how-to-report-bugs-or-request-new-features/

Thanks, I might request it as a new feature just to bring it to attention but I suspect it may not be a simple thing to do and also depends on how useful it would be to majority of program users. I have really posted to find out if I missed something and the image infos are there somewhere...  for now I just need to make notes on the progress.

In your screenshot the image is embedded, not linked. That's two different things.

Linked images will display Windows path on status bar.

Take a look at the related topics you posted about batch import and arrange bitmaps, there are bits of solution there.

In fact status bar displays the relative path, not the absolute path, sorry for this imprecision. Here I saved the svg file in the same folder as pngs.