17 Apr
2012
17 Apr
'12
4:23 a.m.
On Apr 16, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Auguste Pop wrote:
how did you do the "conversion"?
as far as i know, you can directly embed your binary jpeg file inside svg with base64 encoding. that way, the result svg file should not be much larger than the original jpeg file.
i am not sure how to do this in inkscape. but you should be able to write a small script to do this.
That's usually not really a good approach.
Embedding a binary jpeg file in an SVG file expands it by 33%, not to mention various in-memory issues that can arise. Of course, 133% is not nearly as bad as 500%, but it's generally not as helpful. For editing, it can really cause problems, as in-memory string storage can go way up.