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Originally Posted by roger64

Thanks Ruben for a useful tip. Actually, I do not find particularly difficult to write text using Inkscape. But while you are here, I have some svg-related questions that puzzle me (beware, I am greedy).

Ok. Roger, no problem

1 - if the use of the object tag is recommended for svg, why do people still use img tags?

Hmmm, <object> tag is only recommended if you want to use some dinamic effects; otherwise, use <img> tags. Since epub3 is still far away, I don't see the <object> tag practical. But you also can use others method to insert svg images in a .xhtml files (also you can use css to set a svg as background; I use a lot css to include svg fleurons in my books). See the epub I attach. But if I were you, I only would employ <img> tag or css.

Using SVG images.epub

2- how to draw a spreadsheet on svg?
First I thought to produce a cell, then two, then four, make a row, then two rows, four rows, etc. Then we enter the cell values row by row and we align them. But there must be a better solution than this cumbersome idea? Or have we to draw each vertical and horizontal line and align them? Or maybe use a bitmap made table and vectorize it?

Good question; I'd like to know the answer So far, I make the table in Excel and then I export it as .pdf and after I open the .pdf in Inkscape and I try to polish the things. Read this article:

http://xltoolbox.sourceforge.net/blo...-to-svg-files/

It's about how to convert Excel charts into svg images but the procedure is applied also to tables.

3- how long did you need to create your nice leopard cover image in svg? It's amazing!

Less than one minute Inkscape makes all the work; just import the bitmap file and after that, use the command Path\Trace Bitmap... In the section "Multiple scans" select "Colors" and set the option "Scans:" to 64. That's all

Regards
Rubén