USS Juneau wrote:Ispravlennaja Tsekovija wrote:it won't. SVG is a vector file storage format. it is not designed to carry raster images and when it is used for such it will not take up less space (it might take
more). changing the format the raster image is stored in will have zero effect whatsoever.
RIGHT above this post i posted an almost 100% precise conversion of the image you posted into actual vector format. you can use it if you want to use an SVG file. otherwise don't try to fit a square peg into a round hole by putting raster images into a vector format, just use a PNG.
I used Path -> Trace Bitmap in Inkscape and cut the size down to 149kb, so... not sure what I'm doing wrong. Do you have a tutorial to link on this?
i don't have a tutorial for you, but i do suggest you use something called
common sense, i.e., not trying to do the labor of converting raster graphics to vector graphics seemingly without a good reason and without basic background knowledge when somebody already did said labor for you.
inkscape's automated tracing is useful in maybe 0.01% of use cases that someone would have for a raster->vector conversion (yours is not in that 0.01%). the utility produces a large number of high-complexity but low-precision traces of the bitmap, which slows down operation and produces an image with at best slightly higher quality and scalability than the original raster. in order to convert a bitmap image to a small and maneuverable vector file, you cannot get around it, you have to manually recreate all of the primitives. which i
did for you already. (if you want figures, the manually traced file i made was 19.1 kB, an 87% decrease in size from the equivalent one you produced with automated tracing. and that's without dedicated size-reduction measures.)
seriously, just use the
one i gave you (new link because i fixed a tiny problem) instead of trying to do this weird crap. there is nothing wrong with it and it looks identical to the original. then read the wikipedia page for
vector graphics, because i'm not sure you wholly grasp the concept. which is fine, but you probably should understand the fundamental concepts before you try to undertake a task involving them.