On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal@...155...> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a number of *.jpg files that I need to convert to svg. I am using inkscape for the conversion. The problem is that the resulting svg is almost 5 times the size of the jpeg file. I have tried saving the file in compressed plain svg but with no success. The file is still very large. Is there anything I can do to shrink the file? I have run an open source cleanup tool called cleanSVG downloadable from codeplex but that has not helped.
I am open to using other JPG to SVG converters if inkscape is not the right tool for this exercise. Natively creating SVG is not an option at this point. Pranav
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.
best regards,