Images in Multiline Texts

[SeaBee44]

I know this shouldn't be possible, but here it is:

As mentioned in an issue before, the incoorporation of the Images leads to a larger space between lines. This seems to stem from a bigger "placeholder", as visible in the image above when marking the text. However, when selecting the image it looks like this:

So there are two issues here:

1. The images themselves seem to be bigger than the upper case letters of the text
2. In the background seems to be an ever bigger mysterious placeholder.

Any ideas?

[lifelike]

There is a known issue in the extension since Inkscape 1.0 that for some reason the square UNICODE glyph that was used as a placeholder would no longer work. As a temporary solution I got it to work by using X. That is not ideal and is probably the reason the placeholder is too tall in this case. That should be fixed. I do not see a GitHub issue for it, but there is one now I guess. You could try around line 650 to use some other character than X and see if that works better. But anything other than the square glyph is not good of course. I do not know how difficult it is to make that work as it should again.

[lifelike]

I noticed that the workaround with X instead of the proper SQUARE glyph actually included some code to try to calculate a square-shaped position for the image, so the image should be correct even if the X is not square. That part at least is correct.

But a side-effect is that the distance between lines is too large as you noticed, so it i still broken. Hopefully if the correct square symbol can be added back that will be less of a problem, but after a few quick attempts at adding it back still no luck.

[SeaBee44]

Thank you for sending me in the right direction. I made it work for me. First i set the scaling for the placeholder to 100% in line 651, which was the reason for the increased space between lines. Which made my symbols very small.

So i switched the placeholder symbol from 'X' to 'nn', which made them just the right size. And finally i changed the Offset in Line 38 from 0.2 to -0.2 so my circles would line up nicer. Here is the result:

[lifelike]

I am adding options to set the size, offset, and placeholder for inline images. Perhaps a bit blunt to only have that as a global setting (future improvement to be able to set it per image?) but probably good enough for most projects.

[SeaBee44]

This would definately be enough for my purposes. Thank you again.