On Sep 20, 12:12 am, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20 September 2011 04:23, Ivan Voras <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to write a manual and I'd like it to end up in both HTML
> > and PDF. The problem is that bitmap graphics look awful when included
> > in PDF so I'd like to use a vector format. I tried using SVG but
> > neither the current web browsers nor the PDF toolchain support it -
> > which is very unfortunate.
>
> > Any suggestions on how to use vector graphics? Since browsers don't
> > support anything else, this would probably mean that two formats are
> > specified - PNG and something else for the same image - is this even
> > possible?
>
> Hi Ivan,
>
> Pretty much all browsers support svg.

Nope. I can send you the document so you can see for yourself. By
"support" I mean used as "<img src=xxx.svg>".

> You can include SVG in HTML using passthrough, eg
>
> +++<object data="drawing.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>+++

If I must do it that way, I'd rather not use asciidoc at all :)

> The FOP pdf toolchain supports svg.

... but the "normal" PDF processor (whatever it is) produces much
better looking documents for me.

> You can use conditional macros to decide which to include in the
> output.  If you are doing it a lot then it is probably best to define
> yourself a macro for it.

This would be the approach with both a bitmap image and a vector image
and switching between them? So far, I'm using the "image::" macro and
it produces nice looking image captions - could I retain that?

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