If I had a vote, and if PDF really can be seamlessly converted, I would make the front-end favor the SVG format as I think that format would be more likely used by most users.
Glad to hear about this! Both PNG and SVG would be very nice additions. Best, Abraham On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 3:23 PM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a little call for feedback, especially from users of the \epsfile > markup command. (To be clear, I'm not speaking "in the name of the > development > team", just in my name.) > > Over the past year and a half, LilyPond has gained a new output > backend based on the Cairo graphics library. While this backend > has many advantages, there's a downside: it is not possible with > Cairo to include EPS files in PDF output. Yet this is the only way > today to include images, via the \epsfile markup command. > > To address this limitation, we're considering adding support for more > image formats than EPS. We will likely add PNG. However, because PNG > is a raster graphics format while EPS can contain vector graphics > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics), we'd like to add a > vector graphics format as well. Basically, the contenders are PDF > and SVG. However, each of them requires adding dependencies, so we'd > rather not have them both. > > Which leads to the question in this straw poll: would it be more useful > for you to be able to insert SVG or PDF images? Keep in mind that both > can be converted into each other seamlessly, so the question is mainly > what will be most useful for a majority of people. > > Thanks, > Jean > >
