On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:

> Hey list,
>
> I have a number of \externalfigure commands to typeset some svg images.
> This is often handy to have them vectorized because it allows for the
> user to zoom in on diagrams of great detail.
>
> In other situations, I find that for images that are not so important,
> they would benefit from ConTeXt rasterizing them when they are imported.
> The reason for this is I find some vector images get enormously bloated
> when they are typeset. As an example, I have a Logo.svg of only 6.8 KB.
> The m_k_i_v_Logo.pdf intermediate ConTeXt generates is nearly a megabyte
> in size. Why? I have no idea, as they both appear to be the same image
> with the same gausian blur.
>
> Is there a flag I can pass certain instances of \externalfigure that
> tells the image processing backend that a simple rasterized version of
> the figure is fine? Or is there a better approach? I don't want to
> pre-convert all of these images to raster formats.
>
>
ConTeXt uses inkscape, iirc. So try to see what inkscape says about your
file.
If you are under linux, you can also use rsvg .

-- 
luigi