SVG preferred over PDF.
Thank you for asking.
On 2023-01-11 06:40, Benjamin Tordoff wrote:
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
