18Bitmaps
Most vector images start or end (often both) their lives as bitmaps (1.1), and Inkscape's SVG documents are no exception. Many vector drawings, artistic as well as technical, are developed from tracings of photos, scans, or other bitmap drawings; at the other end of their lifetimes, almost all vector pieces are exported into bitmap formats for viewing in software that cannot deal directly with vectors. Bitmaps are an important object type in Inkscape, and the techniques for dealing with them are sufficiently complex and interesting to devote an entire chapter to them.
18.1 Bitmap as Object
If you have a bitmap image file, insert it into your Inkscape document with the File ▶ Import command. You can also File ▶ Open any bitmap file ...
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