On 4/26/19 3:04 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 4/25/19 6:54 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
>> On 4/25/19 5:59 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>> On 4/25/19 5:26 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any written instruction anywhere with guidance on how the SVGs
>>>> should be made?
>>>
>>> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=doc/src/sgml/images/README;
>>
>> Awesome -- that is what I had been looking for. Shouldn't we add that to
>> the actual documentation style guide?
>>
>>> but I would suggest we had some guidance on how to ensure the image
>>> stays scalable.
>>
>> Since you seem to know the magic incarnations, can you propose some words?
> 
> Please see attached.

v2 -- fixed typo in height, and modified some of the language.

Jonathan

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/images/README b/doc/src/sgml/images/README
index dd29486a09..089375c485 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/images/README
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/images/README
@@ -59,3 +59,10 @@ Notes:
 - The width should be set to something.  This ensures that the image
   is scaled to fit the page in PDF output.  (Other widths than 100%
   might be appropriate.)
+
+- SVG images should be scalable as they will be rendered in a variety
+  of places (web, PDF, etc.) as well as in different viewports
+  (desktop, mobile, etc.). To help the images successfully scale,
+  please employe a "viewBox" attribute in the svg tag. For example,
+  to create with a default width and height of 400x300, you would use
+  viewBox="0.00 0.00 400.00 300.00"

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