[reportlab-users] SVG export in comparison to PDF?

[Andy Robinson]

PDF's page marking operators to draw curves and lines are fairly short
and terse, and each page gets 'zipped' before saving.  The XML
equivalents are horrifically longwinded.   So SVG is a bad choice for
images with a lot of detail.  My guess is that it's somehow
disk-write-bound.   Again, can we know the sizes, and what kind of
machine are you on?  We have found that a lot of cloud infrastructures
have very poor disk write performance.

There is also an option to generate PDF files without compression  (I
think you pass pageCompression=0 when constructing the canvas).  This
would be interesting as it will write out the PDF page marking
operators 'longhand'; otherwise, each page is written out and zipped
before saving.  I would imagine the uncompressed PDF will be a few
times bigger.

So please let's have some size data.  Also, how long does it take to
display clearly in Adobe Reader, evince or whatever you use to display
it?

- Andy