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Originally Posted by odamizu
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It is difficult to explain. Perhaps someone else will jump in with a better description.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Am I understanding correctly that the general advantage of SVG is that it reduces distortion and pixelization?
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It can eliminate distortion in the form of stretching or cropping of raster images (such as cover photos) that do not have the same aspect ratio of the screen used to display the book. It can also eliminate pixelization of vector graphics, such as diagonal lines, so that they do not appear jagged when zoomed in. These are really two different things.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
But SVG makes no difference when it comes to cover images in Kindle books?
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Yes, but it does affect EPUB so when kindle books are converted to EPUB the cover HTML is often generated with an SVG wrapper so that it renders nicely.
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Originally Posted by odamizu
Does SVG make a difference for non-cover images in KF8?
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I believe that it can also be used for that purpose, but I do not have experience with that.
Use of SVG in anything but the cover can sometimes prevent a kindle book from supporting enhanced typesetting.