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Old 05-23-2017, 06:55 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
SVG tags are supported by current readers (at least, I know my kobo understands it, as I use that tag for covers). Problem still stays that your image will scale and be blown up. I have seen books with "maps" that are tiny in size and if you blow those up... (most maps are bitmaps...)
If the original image is a bitmap then wrapping it in an SVG tag won't improve its scalability in any way, it just allows access to extra display features such as rotating the bitmap, displaying just a part of the bitmap, things like that.

But if the publishers were to include genuine SVG drawings instead of just bitmaps in their ebooks, then they would be perfectly scalable and could be blown up as large as you like without any loss of quality. That's what Katsunami is after.

Unfortunately the only time I've seen genuine SVG drawings in a fiction ebook (apart from embedded fonts, which are SVG of course) is for little decorations, such as used for scene breaks.

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