Comment 17 for bug 170225

I confirm that the warning message "did not resolve to a valid image file..." existed in 0.46. This behavior is known and commented in the src/sp-image.cpp, line 1243:
    "document base can be wrong (on the temporary doc when importing bitmap from a different dir) or unset (when doc is not saved yet)..."

I could try to fix it by comparing the filename (without path) and the (false) image base with the abref attribute to confirm the xlink:href is ok, but it would eat some CPU cycles that are IMHO not really necessary. The absref fall-back works correctly with this special case as it does with broken xlink:href.

BTW, I can't reproduce the bug I mentioned in comment #8.