<div dir="ltr"><div style>> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ps and pdf have been plenty portable since very long. The claim of higher portability (« even more cross -platform » in your other mail) looks like just another epistle</span></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I never said anybody invented interoperability. PDF and PS are formats from Adobe. Even though PDF is an open spec, Adobe still has some patents on it. PS on the other hand is a very specific format that's almost not used anywhere else than for printers.</div>
<div style>SVG on the other hand is a developed by the W3C, which makes it a fully open format, there's no part of it that belong to any private corporation. It is understood by most of the image editors, and it is THE vector graphics language for the web, which means that it will most probably dominate the field in the future (I don't particularly like that, but it's just a fact). </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The reason you pick one of the « vector » formats is because you want a scalable picture, and the reason you pick one of the raster formats is because you want to have it just like it is on screen.</span></div>
<div style><br></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">The reason I pick SVG (not "one of" the vector formats) :</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">- it is not only an image format, but also a data container. In our case it holds information about what's in your patch.</font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">- it is stylable with CSS, so the content and the look are natively separated</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">- it is widely supported, there is good libraries in many languages, so you generate images very easily by using DOM manipulation libraries.</font></div>
<div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><br></div><div style>> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">There are plenty of image conversion tools from many formats to many others</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Good luck in trying a conversion tool raster -> vector that gives you meaningful results. Doing it that way is basically just an ugly hack</span></div>
<div style><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As I said SVG is also a data container. A raster format holds no data (apart from the pixel data of course). On the other hand SVG doesn't tell what you image should look like, only what it should contain. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In that sense SVG is more central than a raster format.</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/5/20 Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca" target="_blank">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Le 2013-05-15 à 18:46:00, s p a écrit :<br>
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Well ... basically to me the way to go is really with SVG as a starting point. Because once you have SVG, you can use one of hundred different tools to convert to PNG, JPG or any image format you can dream of. <br>
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Well, that's not a real reason. There are plenty of image conversion tools from many formats to many others. Several other formats were already convertible by hundreds of tools before svg existed.<br>
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The reason you pick one of the « vector » formats is because you want a scalable picture, and the reason you pick one of the raster formats is because you want to have it just like it is on screen. In that sense, converting a patch directly to a vector format is not a « screenshot ».<br>
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And within the vector formats, ps and pdf have been plenty portable since very long. The claim of higher portability (« even more cross-platform » in your other mail) looks like just another epistle from the Holy Church of XML, who talk like they invented interoperability and as if their formats were magically better at it.<br>
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