+1 for SVG: From my perspective and experience including vector graphics in musical scores is most often about icons or graphics, illustration or extended markup, but rather not entire documents / pages (knowing that PDFs can be small as well of course ;-). SVG is widely used for icons and graphics of any dimension (and scalable by definition ;-) ), while PDF contains a lot of overhead that might cause trouble "easier".
And yes: PNG is welcome as well :-) Best Stephan On 10.01.2023 23:35, Abraham Lee wrote:
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 <mailto: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 <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
