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by GeoAtreides 695 days ago
SVG often includes raster images? That's very surprising to me. I can see some use cases here and there, sure, but using a vector format to 'often' include raster images... i dunno.

Thousands of XML elements is the ideal case, compresses extremely well.

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An example, many of Inkscape's filters depend on raster samples that need to be embedded. Complex gradients are also rasterised.