[Framers] SVG graphic with photograph not importing

[David Artman]

   In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with saving a raster graphic
   (photo, screen shot) with vector-art (callout lines, boxes, text) as an
   SVG file (or PDF, or EPS). In fact, it is probably the *best practice*
   both for localization (translate the text in the SVG) and for
   searchability (the text is still text in the final output, not
   rasterized bitmap like it would be if you saved to PNG before
   typesetting it). If you flatten it to a bitmap format like PNG, the
   text and callout lines and boxes become bitmaps as well, and as such
   are going to show graininess at zoom and not be searchable.

   Of course, we could argue about the relative merits of putting text
   into an image rather than using letters or numbers and then defining
   the letters or numbers in (say) a table below the image in FM. Many
   choose the latter approach to simplify localization--you need only send
   the FM files for translation, not hundreds of SVG files as well. But if
   you're fine with natural-language text in your graphics and the
   commensurate cost of translating graphic-by-graphic, then SVG is
   basically ideal, for the reasons I gave above.

   As for JPG versus PNG, there's no reason to save as JPG unless you
   *intentionally* want to save a lossy image at a very small size. PNG
   applies lossless compression--and so you get some file-size
   savings--but it doesn't generate the wretched artifacts that
   low-percentage JPGs generate.

   I would concur with whomever said that there's no point in putting
   *only* a raster graphic into an SVG and saving it as SVG. Just adding a
   step. No one should lose sleep over the fact that images without
   callouts are PNG and those with callouts are SVG... in fact, that would
   simplify sorting out which needed to be zipped up for the translators
   versus which can be left alone!

   My 2¢;

   David