Lectora supports SVG images, ensuring your content is professional, scalable, and high-quality for all devices and screen sizes. Enhance your eLearning projects with crisp, dynamic graphics that look perfect at any resolution.
Last update: July 2024
Lectora Online and Lectora Desktop support SVG images, allowing you to create content with crystal-clear, scalable graphics. Use the Insert Image tool to effortlessly add SVG files, ensuring your visuals remain sharp and professional at any size.
Here’s a comparison of SVG, JPG, and PNG images highlighting their strengths and weaknesses:
Overall Use Cases
- SVG: Best for logos, icons, and illustrations where scalability and editability are crucial.
- JPG: Best for detailed photographs and complex images where small file size is important.
- PNG: Best for images requiring transparency, screenshots, and simple graphics with high quality.
Scalability
- SVG:
- Strengths: Infinitely scalable without loss of quality. Ideal for logos, icons, and graphics.
- Weaknesses: Not suitable for complex images like photographs.
- JPG:
- Strengths: Can display complex images with high detail.
- Weaknesses: Loses quality when scaled up, resulting in pixelation.
- PNG:
- Strengths: Better than JPG for maintaining quality at different sizes, especially for graphics.
- Weaknesses: Larger file size when compared to JPGs for the same image resolution.
File Size
- SVG:
- Strengths: Typically small file size for simple graphics and icons.
- Weaknesses: File size can grow with complex vector paths.
- JPG:
- Strengths: Smaller file size for complex, detailed images.
- Weaknesses: Larger file size for images requiring high detail and quality.
- PNG:
- Strengths: Good for images with transparent backgrounds and simple graphics.
- Weaknesses: Larger file size compared to JPGs, especially for high-resolution images.
Transparency
- SVG:
- Strengths: Supports transparency.
- Weaknesses: None in terms of transparency.
- JPG:
- Strengths: None. Does not support transparency.
- Weaknesses: Cannot have transparent backgrounds or elements.
- PNG:
- Strengths: Fully supports transparency, including alpha channels.
- Weaknesses: None in terms of transparency.
Editability
- SVG:
- Strengths: Easily edited with text editors and vector graphic software.
- Weaknesses: Requires understanding of vector graphic editing.
- JPG:
- Strengths: Can be edited with bitmap editing software.
- Weaknesses: Loses quality with each edit due to compression.
- PNG:
- Strengths: Can be edited with bitmap editing software without losing quality.
- Weaknesses: Larger file sizes can be cumbersome to handle.
Animation
- SVG:
- Strengths: Supports animation and interactivity via CSS and JavaScript.
- Weaknesses: Requires knowledge of animation techniques and scripting.
- JPG:
- Strengths: None. Requires additional formats for animation.
- Weaknesses: No inherent support for animation.
- PNG:
- Strengths: None. Requires additional formats for animation.
- Weaknesses: No inherent support for animation.
Text Quality
- SVG:
- Strengths: Text remains vector data, crisp at any size.
- Weaknesses: None.
- JPG:
- Strengths: Can include text in images.
- Weaknesses: Text becomes rasterized and can blur when scaled.
- PNG:
- Strengths: Maintains text quality better than JPG when scaling.
- Weaknesses: Text is rasterized, but quality loss is less severe compared to JPG.
SEO and Accessibility
- SVG:
- Strengths: XML-based, indexable by search engines, and readable by screen readers.
- Weaknesses: None.
- JPG:
- Strengths: None. Treated as binary files by search engines.
- Weaknesses: No inherent SEO or accessibility benefits.
- PNG:
- Strengths: None. Treated as binary files by search engines.
- Weaknesses: No inherent SEO or accessibility benefits.
By understanding these strengths and weaknesses, you can choose the best image format for your specific needs.