Hi
I resumed my trials and got some advice. I am still not here...
1. - Take a png image. Import it to Inkscape as a link, write some lines of text around the drawing, save the text as a plain svg. The image and the text display fine with Inkscape.
2. - Import both png image and svg text in the joint EPUB2. I made sure the svg text has the link to the png image within the EPUB2.
3. - Here are my two best trials:
- a common svg wrapper: the text is well displayed, the png image is missing
- a svg file using an object tag. Text and image are well displayed but the whole is way too big and I cannot scale it.
Using svg inline was no better. Using an image tag was worse.
Here are the files for you to look at. If somebody manages to get a fine display, I'll be very happy to learn how to do it and to understand what I missed.
Note: the used font is Linux Libertine O but it has not been embedded. Do not take into account the display of the font.
Copyright: text from Charles Perrault (died 1703), image from Arthur Rackham (died 1939).