I have been doing some work which required importing a raster image and sent it to someone else to discover that the "import" of th image is actually a "link" through the <image> tag in the SVG... which I should have expected being SVG basically XML...
Examining the (plain) SVG I noticed that when importing rasters, Inkscape (Windows version) will put the absolute path if it is different from the one the SVG is saved to, and a relative if it is in the same folder. Examples:





So in case one must share, the best is probably to create a work folder with everything and then just zip and send.
I was wondering if there is a way to actually to actually "embed" (encapsulate?) the raster.

Thanks and kindest regards,
Lorenzo

Effects -> Images -> Embed All Images

great! Thanks sas, I had missed that

I have a folder in which all files, both the main SVG and all PNGs, are and when I import a PNG into the SVG, it is still referenced by an absolute path rather than relative. I would really prefer it being relative. Is it possible? How come your SVG saves the image links as relative?