When you say pandoc base64 encodes the SVGs -- are you using
the --self-contained option?  Normally you'd just get a link
to an external image.

James Hoyland <hoyland.jd-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hello all,
> New to pandoc and loving it. So I am using it to generate HTML snippets
> from markdown to copy and paste in a learning management system (Moodle).
> Now this works, I can produce nice HTML, I can use MathJax and get
> equations in there, I can also link images which get base64 encoded - all
> works great. I need to use the base64 encoding because it's a pain to link
> the images as separate files from within Moodle. However one thing I'd like
> to do - I make diagrams in Inkscape and link the SVG files into the the
> Markdown, Pandoc also base64 encodes the SVG - at first I thought it was
> rasterizing them but I can right click download them from the website and
> they are still SVG just embedded as a base64 encoded image tag. I would
> prefer if pandoc took the SVG and just inlined it in the resulting HTML as
> an SVG tag. Is this possible?
>
> James
>
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