Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-12 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Hello, Le 12/01/2023 à 20:01, NickS a écrit : Personally I certainly much prefer vector formats, as these scale much better in documents, are more editable if customisation is required, and they can easily be batch-converted into raster formats of the required resolution if needed. My main u

Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-12 Thread NickS
Personally I certainly much prefer vector formats, as these scale much better in documents, are more editable if customisation is required, and they can easily be batch-converted into raster formats of the required resolution if needed. My main usage case is including Lilypond snippets in large

Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-11 Thread ebenezer
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 o

Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-10 Thread Benjamin Tordoff
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,

Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-10 Thread Stephan Schöll
+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 graphic

Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 10/01/2023 à 23:35, Abraham Lee a écrit : If I had a vote, and if PDF really can be seamlessly converted Yes, it can. pdf2svg in.pdf out.svg (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/impish/man1/pdf2svg.1.html) In the opposite direction: rsvg-convert in.svg -f pdf -o out.pdf The only cavea

Re: Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-10 Thread Abraham Lee
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 Je

Feedback request on image formats

2023-01-10 Thread Jean Abou Samra
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. Whi