On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> p...@phk.freebsd.dk said:
> > That is _exactly_ why you should use a vectorformat like SVG: Raster
> format
> > is a waste of bytes for line graphics.
>
> Except that it doesn't work that way, at least for my simple test case.
>
> SVG is uncompressed text.  PNG compresses well, at least for simple cases.
>
> PNG, 8K:
> http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/coax/Front-5ns-800x600.png
>
> SVG, 46K:
> http://www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/coax/Front-5ns-800x600.svg
>
>

So you are saying that SVG can't work because one example of it is broken.
  Also, there are other vector formats, like Postscript and PDF.

-- 

Chris Albertson
Redondo Beach, California
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