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odamizu · 02-20-2018, 06:29 PM

I have been long confused by SVG and would like to understand.

What is the benefit of wrapping a cover jpg (or any image) in SVG code? I've seen ebooks with cover images without SVG; and other ebooks wrap the cover jpg in SVG. SVG also seems to be the default for Sigil and Calibre.

But when I load these ebooks onto my iDevices (reading with an epub app) or Kindle (after converting epub via KindleGen) both seem to work fine, and I'm not understanding the advantage of SVG.

Google has not been helpful in enlightening my poor brain, and I would really like to learn this. Thank you.

02-20-2018, 06:29 PM	#1
odamizu just an egg Posts: 1,834 Karma: 8006102 Join Date: Mar 2015 Device: Kindle, iOS	SVG images - why? I have been long confused by SVG and would like to understand. What is the benefit of wrapping a cover jpg (or any image) in SVG code? I've seen ebooks with cover images without SVG; and other ebooks wrap the cover jpg in SVG. SVG also seems to be the default for Sigil and Calibre. But when I load these ebooks onto my iDevices (reading with an epub app) or Kindle (after converting epub via KindleGen) both seem to work fine, and I'm not understanding the advantage of SVG. Google has not been helpful in enlightening my poor brain, and I would really like to learn this. Thank you.