Re: image2svg - A class converting Images to standalone SVG

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Urs Gehrig wrote: > dear all > > image2svg - A class converting Images to standalone SVG > ------------------------------------------------------- > > after seeking something similar on the net and not being satisfied with what > i found, i have written a class, that converts images [jpg, png and gif] to > standalon svg files. > > please have a look at the source files and an example on: > > http://www.circle.ch/php/ > > i think the class would fit very good into pear, since there is a class to > convert svg to images as well, which would round up the whole thing. > > thanks for any feedback. > > best regards, urs > I tried this out, and while it seems to work (well, it generated something; I didn't get around to getting a SVG browser to view it with), could you explain why someone would want to convert a bitmap into this format? This seems to defeat the notions of "scalable" and "vector", unless it does edge detection and actually generates vectors ;) Since, according to the code, the SVG is 30% larger than the source image, it seems to only have drawbacks. Code's nice though! - Brent