Importing drawings from draw.io to Writer

[DavideAndrea]

I create drawings in draw.io, which I then need to insert in a Writer document.

Right now I take a screen shot, paste it in a mage editing application, crop it, copy it, paste it in Writer.
That's inconvenient, and converts a vector drawing to a low resolution pixel image.

If I copy a portion of a drawing from draw.io and try to paste it directly in Writer, it pastes the XML text, as plain text:

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%3CmxGraphModel%3E%3Croot%3E%3CmxCell%20id%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3CmxCell%20id%3D%221%22%20parent%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3CmxCell%20id%3D%222%22%20value%3D%2210%22%20style%3D%22text%3Bhtml%3D1%3Bresizable%3D0%3Bpoints%3D%5B%5D%3Bautosize%3D1%3Balign%3Dcenter%3BverticalAlign%3Dtop%3BspacingTop%3D-4%3BfontSize%3D16%3BfontColor%3D%23000000%3B%22%20vertex%3D%221%22%20parent%3D%221%22%3E%3CmxGeometry%20x%3D%227165%22%20y%3D%226547%22%20width%3D%2230%22%20height%3 ...

Which appears to be mxgraph format (https://jgraph.github.io/mxgraph/)

Is there a way to paste that in Writer and get the image, not the text?

draw.io can export to SVG, PDF, html, XML.
Is there a way to insert an image in any of these formats?

[FJCC]

Writer seems to handle the svg format. I used the menu Insert -> Picture -> From File and imported a small svg I pulled off the web.

[DavideAndrea]

Well, that worked!

EDIT: "almost". The drawing is messed up; some elements are replaced by "Not supported by viewer"

I was confused by the fact that the list of supported formats includes SGV, which is not SVG. That confused me.

Thanks!

[musikai]

Seems that multiline texts are formatted using an xhtml extension.
These multi line texts show "Not supported by viewer" in Writer and even in Inkscape but work in a browser like Inkscape.

You can workaround by using multiple single line text objects.

[DavideAndrea]

Thanks, but I decided to paste 200% larger png images: guaranteed to work, even at the cost of lower resolution.

[John_Ha]

See [Tutorial] Some useful hints on using images for a discussion on how best to handle images in Writer.