In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with saving a raster graphic (photo, screen shot) with vector-art (callout lines, boxes, text) as an SVG file (or PDF, or EPS). In fact, it is probably the *best practice* both for localization (translate the text in the SVG) and for searchability (the text is still text in the final output, not rasterized bitmap like it would be if you saved to PNG before typesetting it). If you flatten it to a bitmap format like PNG, the text and callout lines and boxes become bitmaps as well, and as such are going to show graininess at zoom and not be searchable.
Of course, we could argue about the relative merits of putting text into an image rather than using letters or numbers and then defining the letters or numbers in (say) a table below the image in FM. Many choose the latter approach to simplify localization--you need only send the FM files for translation, not hundreds of SVG files as well. But if you're fine with natural-language text in your graphics and the commensurate cost of translating graphic-by-graphic, then SVG is basically ideal, for the reasons I gave above. As for JPG versus PNG, there's no reason to save as JPG unless you *intentionally* want to save a lossy image at a very small size. PNG applies lossless compression--and so you get some file-size savings--but it doesn't generate the wretched artifacts that low-percentage JPGs generate. I would concur with whomever said that there's no point in putting *only* a raster graphic into an SVG and saving it as SVG. Just adding a step. No one should lose sleep over the fact that images without callouts are PNG and those with callouts are SVG... in fact, that would simplify sorting out which needed to be zipped up for the translators versus which can be left alone! My 2ยข; David _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com