Re: Feedback request on image formats

[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, +1 for SVG (+PNG obviously) from me.

Ben

> On 10 Jan 2023, at 22:52, Stephan Schöll <music@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 <jean@abou-samra.fr
>> <mailto:jean@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
>> 
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