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Old 09-22-2014, 01:32 AM   #41
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The entire notion of bitmap tracing for music in SVG is probably the wrong direction. When you generate a PDF with something like Finale, you aren't generating a bunch of lines. Your staff lines are lines, but everything else is just a placed font glyph, which means it's just a few bytes of text in SVG per musical symbol. That *should* be fairly efficient when compared with a PNG file, at least after you compress the book.

Of course, then you get the whole font licensing question—you'd have to contact the font vendor for details on that—but that's a separate issue.
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