Re: image2svg - A class converting Images to standalone SVG

Hi, The possibility of embedding binary images is making use of effects like blending and shading with SVG (though I find a class for the base64 encoding a but overkill, but I may miss the obvious here). - Markus On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:41:40PM -0500, Brent Cook wrote : > 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 > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc "Mind if I MFH ?" "What QA did you do on it?" "the usual?" "ah... none :)"