Hi All,

This is my first post to this board. First, a quick history, then my question.

I starting working with CorelDraw Essentials in 2003. Great software, but buggy!!! The photo editing software is tops, and the fact that you can make multi page drawings in Draw and auto export as web pages or PDF files is just awesome!!!

BUT... I am sick of the bugs. Windows XP, although better than its predecessors, has a habit of freezing solid at the most inopportune times. And CorelDraw regularly screws up web links within my multi-page documents, and to try and fix them is now probably taking more time than it would take to learn new software.

I actually like the feeling of paying someone for a well made product (software in this case), but I don't want to remain in the non-free software world and continuously pay for software that freezes or is buggy. Hence, I am on this forum typing from PCLinuxOS.

OK, done with the intro and philosophical argument. So, as the title of this post suggests, how do I create a multi-part graphic with HTML buttons (for page switching) within it? I can do this with Inkscape/NVu easily when the buttons are separate from the graphic (by linking the button to an address for a different page, top of page, etc), but I cannot figure out how to embed these buttons within the graphic I want to place on the page.

If anyone can offer any help I would be much obliged. If the answer is on a previous post, please post the link and don't attack me for being stupid (or lazy).

Thanks!

Dulwithe, The Dark Shadow.

I think you might have a slightly wrong idea about what Inkscape is for. The SVG format can do what you ask, but Inkscape is used primarily for creating static images in SVG format rather than SVG documents. And if you creating webpages, then you don't want to use SVG since IE doesn't support it without a plugin that most people won't have installed.

I would take a step back and think about what you need based on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to create a printed document then check out Scribus - it's a page layout application like Adobe InDesign or, dare I say, Microsoft Publisher. If you want to create webpages, then Nvu is a good option. Note that Scribus and Nvu 'create' the document but don't create images - Inkscape can be used to create the images used in the document - Inkscape doesn't create documents.

If you were using Corel Draw to both create the images and create the HTML, then that was a bad option. I haven't seen a single application that could do both well.

Hi microUgly,

Thanks for the reply. Your points are well taken. I have been playing with NVu to do just what you said - "create.html