On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Kip Warner <k...@thevertigo.com> wrote:
> Hey list, > > I have a number of \externalfigure commands to typeset some svg images. > This is often handy to have them vectorized because it allows for the > user to zoom in on diagrams of great detail. > > In other situations, I find that for images that are not so important, > they would benefit from ConTeXt rasterizing them when they are imported. > The reason for this is I find some vector images get enormously bloated > when they are typeset. As an example, I have a Logo.svg of only 6.8 KB. > The m_k_i_v_Logo.pdf intermediate ConTeXt generates is nearly a megabyte > in size. Why? I have no idea, as they both appear to be the same image > with the same gausian blur. > > Is there a flag I can pass certain instances of \externalfigure that > tells the image processing backend that a simple rasterized version of > the figure is fine? Or is there a better approach? I don't want to > pre-convert all of these images to raster formats. > > ConTeXt uses inkscape, iirc. So try to see what inkscape says about your file. If you are under linux, you can also use rsvg . -- luigi
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