[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 18

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:26 +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.09.2007, 11:56 +0300 schrieb Nicu Buculei:
> > Frederik Elwert wrote:
> > > In principal, SVG (as it's scalable) should be the better option for
> > > thumbnails. But practically this brings some problems: Not all browsers
> > > support the required SVG features (SVG filters in Firefox 2.x), and the
> > 
> > Here is the biggest problem: for complex images the PNG thumbnail is 
> > often smaller in size than the SVG source, so for the best browsing 
> > experience (quick page load) PNG is the best options.
> 
> But this applies only to PNGs in thumbnail size. Actually, we have quite
> often the situation that a full-sized PNG export is uploaded, which
> might even be larger than the SVG. (Take
> http://openclipart.org/media/files/shokunin/4492 as an example: SVG 8KB,
> PNG 50KB.)
> 
> So when PNG is used as thumbnail, it should have a height of 128px, so
> the filesize actually is small and no client-side resizing is required.
> 
> > > inkscape generated files lack some web-specific features (esp. viewBox
> > > and no fixed width/height).
> > 
> > I believe this is mostly caused  by the image authors.
> 
> I don't. As far as I know, Inkscape automatically adds fixed dimensions
> to new documents, and doesn't add a viewBox. This makes the images not
> fit to the limited space of a thumbnail, but keep its original size. I
> don't know a way to "web-optimize" an image through the GUI, so authors
> would have to add the XML tree by adding a viewBox and removing the
> fixed dimensions. I don't think this is the authors task.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik
Really, I think inkscape makes the canvas size the viewport size, and if
not, there should be an option for this...can you check upstream and/or
file bug/RFE for this with Inkscape if not supported?

thx

Jon

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