Saving SVGs to PDFs by default

[ankur92]

Hi Dan!

Very resourceful repo!

Is there a particular reason to not store the SVGs as PDFs by default? It's an added step to install inkscape (not a big deal) but just curious.

[DanielSank]

We need to maintain a single source of truth for images. If the image is drawn as an SVG (with Inkscape or otherwise) that that's the source of truth. I do not want to store derived files e.g. PDF's because that runs the risk of committing un-synchronized copies of the SVG and associated PDF.

I agree that we're introducing a build-time dependency but there are several (free) programs that can convert image types and it's typically a single line command so I see it as a reasonable price to pay for avoiding synchronization errors.

[ankur92]

Thanks for the clarification! Makes sense for the sync issues. I was having trouble executing inkscape command on M1 processor but got it working now. One needs to provide the entire path 'Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape.