title: Is it possible to include a link to a pdf- or svg-file inside an Inkscape svg?
body: <p>I am using python to create a bunch of plots of my data and then Inkscape to layout individual plots and schematics in panels of a master figure. I also add some extra elements such as panel names and titles.</p>
  
  <p>Every time I modify something in my Python code, I have to manually paste the svg/pdf plots into Inkscape. I have noticed that if I create the plots as raster images instead of vectors, I can insert a link in the Inkscape document, and have the figure panel update every time I regenerate the plots in python, which is phenomenal!</p>
  
  <p>Currently I am using this approach with a high DPI, but ideally, I would like to insert a link to a svg/pdf file so that the entire figure is a vector instead of a high DPI, big sized raster. I have seen that it is possible to include pdfs (don't think svgs work) in this manner in Adobe Illustrator .ai-files, and I wonder if there is any way to do it in Inkscape as well?</p>
  
  <p>When I insert image links, Inkscape creates a tag in the svg similar to this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;image
     sodipodi:absref="path/to/image.png"
     xlink:href="./image.png"
     y="14.014872"
     x="5.9285898"
     id="image12160"
     preserveAspectRatio="none"
     height="441.91879"
     width="466.55328" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can modify the path to point to an svg file, but Inkscape will automatically convert the svg to a low resolution raster. If I change the path to a pdf, I get an error. Is there anything I can modify in the svg-code to be able to link pdf/svg-files and have them render in Inkscape as vector files?</p>