Re: [Docutils-users] SVG images in ODT (was: Does the doctree reader work?)

[Matěj C. <mc...@ce...>]

On Tue Jan 27, 2026 at 2:11 PM CET, Guenter Milde via Docutils-users wrote:
>>     ```{image} parent_and_child.png
>>     :alt: A schematic image of large adult facing a child
>>     :width: 50%
>>     :align: center
>>     ```
>> ```
>
> Uh, does it really also fail with a PNG image? (It works here.)

Sorry, that's a typo … I have switched to .png afterwards to avoid this
problem and then left it in the test case. I am sorry. Yes, PNG works
just fine.

> Possible workarounds include
>
> * using exporting to LaTeX and compile to PDF
> * using a PNG image
> * post-process the document after the export in the LibreOffice writer.

Gemini wrote to me this
https://paste.sr.ht/~mcepl/6dc49185a90e19ba623fd940f3e48d1b20f5ee0d, but
I am afraid it hallucinated most of the code, I cannot find that module
`svg2odg` anywhere. I guess, we would have to try to vibe-code that
converter anew (hopefully, conversion between two XML-based formats
should be something LLM should be able to do).

What do you think?

Matěj

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