can pdf output use pdf image files instead?

[stevepowell99]

one of the great things about using markdown via pandoc is the ability to include vector graphics in pdf or similar format rather than pngs or jpgs. I produce a lot of techinical graphs and the user usually wants to enlarge them onscreen, but in the gitbook-produced pdf they would just get big pixels.
Is there any way to incorporate vector graphics in gitbook?

[erixtekila]

inline SVG are not included while building ? Like HTML.

[erixtekila]

I've tested and inline SVG works great in html output.

[stevepowell99]

Thanks - ah, so if I can produce my graphics in .svg format, they will appear as such in the HTML and in PDF? that would be great.

[SamyPesse]

PDF is generated using: markdown -> single html page -> phantomJS (which is running webkit like chrome) -> print like a google chrome -> PDF

So everything that render great on a webpage in chrome to pdf will render great here.

[erixtekila]

@SamyPesse Na.
gitbook build -f pdfhang for ever !
Can't phantomjs render svg ?

[stevepowell99]

thanks both for quick responses! You are right, svg works like a dream in
both html and pdf.

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Samy Pessé notifications@git.luolix.topwrote:

PDF is generated using: markdown -> single html page -> phantomJS (which
is running webkit like chrome) -> print like a google chrome -> PDF

So everything that render great on a webpage in chrome to pdf will render
great here.

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[erixtekila]

Sure ? I can't get to build it in pdf.

[SamyPesse]

Can you test with the latest version of gitbook (new tool for generating a pdf).

[SamyPesse]

This issue will be fixed in the 2.0.0 release (#562).