Pranav -

Can you say something about what you're trying to accomplish, or why you're doing this? JPEG files are designed to be very small for a given quality, so it's hardly surprising that an SVG version would be much bigger. Perhaps you could downsample or smooth the JPEG images?

- Robert

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Pranav Lal wrote:

Hi all,

Just a quick note to say that I need to batch convert the files so I can't open inkscape and do things like trace the bitmap as shown on sites like http://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/convert-a-png-to-a-svg-file works-for-jpg-too/

-----Original Message----- From: Pranav Lal [mailto:pranav.lal@...155...] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:23 AM To: 'mailing list!' Subject: Shrinking the results of JPG to SVG conversion

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