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I'm unable to get any image viewers to display SVG files that have an image or use with an href attribute, that points to another SVG file.

I can view it in a browser, but I'm looking for an image viewer to display the SVG (with embedded images) that can automatically refresh as I make changes. A VSCode extension would be better but I'm perfectly happy if any image viewer can do this.

Try this, create a test.svg,

<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <image href="test_embed_this.svg" height="200" width="200"/>
</svg>

Create the test_embed_this.svg,

<svg width="200" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
    <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" stroke="black" stroke-width="3" fill="red" />
</svg>

Now try viewing test.svg. I have tried the default Image Viewer, and Geeqie, and Inkscape. None of them are able to display the test.svg properly. Browsers do it just fine. I am using Ubuntu 20.04

They all show similar to this

enter image description here

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  • eog (Image Viewer) displays the red circle through test.svg on Ubuntu 21.10. Inkscape 1.1 does not.
    – vanadium
    Commented Apr 9, 2022 at 15:21
  • @vanadium interesting! I haven't tried 21.10. I wonder if there's some limitation in the specific version I have. Can you share your version? Mine is Image Viewer 3.36.3
    – Mendhak
    Commented Apr 9, 2022 at 15:32
  • In 21.10 it will be 3.40. Likely a feature update.
    – vanadium
    Commented Apr 9, 2022 at 15:37

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