I'm certainly open to suggestions on how to reduce the work needed for the first step, but it needs to be a step in the right direction. Adding 500 files and reorganizing many directories is not a good intermediate measure. I definitely want your work committed too, in fact I included it in the requirements for the 1.2 release; but I'm not willing to make a mess of the source tree just to get this in sooner, as I'm sure you understand.
Ok, thanks for letting me know. I'll investigate multipage SVG and see what I can come up with All the best Joel