: Re: How to include SVG in eBooks How can one add .SVG files to ebooks in a way that is supported by major ereaders? I've raked through the entire internet, and I find two things: People bragging

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I'm constantly amused how the Web is "just now discovering" vector formats. HTML has no particular support for it, Word is even worse, and SVG format is just catching on. But vector has been a staple of desktop publishing since 1986.

An ebook is analogous to desktop publishing, not making a web page.

The traditional vector graphics format is PostScript. It is the core of Portable Document Format, aka PDF.

Because of that, PostScript format art drops very efficiently into PDF.

While you may make your art in particular platforms like Illustrator or Corel Draw, you should be exporting them in PostScript or some other vector format which your composition software can place. Then, the vector art will embed as vector art, won't suffer compression damage, and will look sharp at any zoom.

If your composition software can't handle this competently, then it's time for better composition software. I could do this in Illustrator/PageMaker in 1987 on a computer with 512K RAM and clocked at 7 MHz, so it must surely be possible today.

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