Almost all the images I use for cover art etc are JPEG or PNG originally so for me PNG is the most important format. Other images I use are generally icons or clip art and these are almost always png or svg. I don’t think I’ve ever seen stock imagery or icons in pdf format, only documents.
So, +1 for SVG (+PNG obviously) from me. Ben > On 10 Jan 2023, at 22:52, Stephan Schöll <mu...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > +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 >> >
