Am 30.12.22 um 17:34 schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
Le 30/12/2022 à 17:20, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit :
I agree with Jonas that it would be a considerable loss not to be
able to import vector graphics. I don't concur with Jean's argument
that one can replace them by using markup commands: One obvious use
case for proper vector import would be including a publisher's logo,
for instance.
A logo will occupy a small fraction of the page. Do you really need to
have it in such high resolution that the file size becomes a problem?
In practice, probably. (Although there are also things like page-sized
watermarks.)
But: One of the reasons to use LilyPond is the high-quality PDF output.
I'm certain there are many users (myself included) who would regret
having a raster graphic file lurking in their wonderful scalable PDF
scores on principle.
That being said: My uneducated guess would be that with Cairo etc.,
it might be more natural/easy to import vector graphics in SVG format
than in EPS?
Yes, I think. Basically, we could support embedding PDFs via Poppler,
or SVGs via librsvg.
It would be nice to have both, but I really think at least one of them
should work before the current backend (with its eps support) is abandoned.
Lukas
