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convert jpg to svg

Asked by Rob

I need to save jpg images as svg files.
In illustrator I load the jpg then save as svg, works fine.
When I try the same in Inkscape, save as plain or inkscape svg , put in file name & svg extension,
I get a very small file that shows up as a 'broke image' symbol in the program I am using (Carbide for phone theme making), but it looks OK when opening in Illustrator or Inkscape??

I'm probably doing something completely stupid,

Thanks,
Rob.

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Best Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail) said : 		#1

What you want to do is embedding the images in the SVG file, not converting them to SVG format.
SVG format is a vector graphics format, while jpg is a raster image format.

Select the imported images an go to:
effect > images > embed images
to embed each one into the svg document.

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Rob (robertjmassie) said : 		#2

Thanks very much!
That has done the trick, I just did as you say then save it as a svg.

Rob.

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sachin6870 (sachin6870) said : 		#3

What is the command line option to embed images in plain svg? I need to do conversation in batches, hence need command line option.

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jazzynico (jazzynico) said : 		#4

> What is the command line option to embed images in plain svg?

There's no direct command line option to do that, but you could use the verbs to call a menu action from the cli.
See http://inkscape.modevia.com/inkscape-man.html (--verb).