If I embed the following SVG as a background image of a page

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg version="1.1" id="Ebene_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
	 width="100px" height="100px" viewBox="0 0 100 100" enable-background="new " xml:space="preserve">
<rect x="-12" y="-16" opacity="0.05" fill="#E2001A" width="100" height="100"/>
<a xlink:href="http://abc.de" >
	<rect x="12" y="12" fill="#DDDDDD" width="40" height="40"/>
</a>
</svg>

...the SVG image is shown as a bg image but the link is not active on the Prince rendered PDF. Any ideas why? BTW in a browser the link works...

--Kai Heitmann

Edited 10 Jan 2015 by kheitmann

I suspect it may not have occurred to us that background images could contain links.

Edited 10 Jan 2015 by mikeday

Thanks... (well, tech pubs may have that
Does that mean that there is no hope to have that implemented in Prince?

--Kai Heitmann

I will add it to the roadmap and we will investigate.

Just to clarify, are you applying the SVG background to an element in the document, or to an @page rule?

Also, repeating/tiled backgrounds make it very difficult to process links properly, so the background will need to be only drawn once.

One of our main and urgent use cases is:

@page:nth(1) { background: url(vr81-0001.svg) no-repeat fixed; }

where the svg image contains a link to a web form. It is a non-repating background.
Thanks!

--Kai Heitmann

Edited 14 Jan 2015 by kheitmann

I think you can do this more easily by making an absolutely positioned block with z-index -1, like this:

body::before {
    content: url(vr81-0001.svg);
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1;
    left: ... top: ... width: ... height: ...
}