Forum:Svg Images

Is there anyone other than me arround here who knows the difference between a .svg file and another file such as a .png? If you don't know what that is then it's hard to get the significance of what I'm doing.

.svg is a special type of image, it workes differently than other image types. Though not all browsers support .svg, but fortunately the MediaWiki system here works specialy, we can upload a .svg file, and when we include the image into a page giving out the size parameter like we normaly do, it creates a .png file in that size, that means that even though a number of browsers can't display the image, we still get the benefits of .svg images because MediaWiki converts them into .pngs. A .png just like a .gif, .jpg, .bmp, or any other image type simply works with a fixed sized set of dots. A .svg is different though. A .svg file is actualy text/xml unlike the binary format of a image file, additionaly to that, a .svg dosen't work in dots, .svgs use objects such as lines, circles, squares, and add effects and colors to them. What's the significance? Well with a normal image such as a .png if we scale up the image to a gigantic proportion all those formerly little dots we saw now look like big boxes. But a .svg dosen't use the dots, instead it uses sets of objects, these objects such as a circle, even when blown up to large scales don't turn into pixelated boxes, this means that no matter how large you make the image it still looks normal. A demonstration if you will: Both of these images were originaly 48px × 48px, but unlike the .png, the .svg hasen't lost it's quality even though it's been blown up to 350px × 350px over 7× it's normal size.

Now to explain what I'm doing. Using InkScape, I'm drawing up .svg versions of each of the Symbols you can see at Naruto. Can you see the benefit? Dantman (Talk) 00:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)