- From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 17:09:54 +0000
- To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
> So, the question is: do most designers know that the "encapsulated" part of EPS is the embedded thumbnail? Or has usage shifted enough from the original name that people just understand "encapsulated" to mean "self-contained image file"?
Remembering back a few decades, when I used to write EPS diagrams (by hand, in a text editor) the main differences were:
* fully self contained
* no `/showpage` command
* `%%BoundingBox` required (think SVG viewBox)
A raster preview _could_ be provided but was always, as I saw it, optional. Since
a) I was working in a text editor, making a raster preview would have been annoying; and
b) I was editing on an [X11R3 system with Display Postscript](http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/35x0/VS35x0ProductDescription.html), so the raster preview would not have been used anyway.
So I never added one to my files.
Thus, I think ESVG ("Encapsulated Scalable Vector Graphics") would be a fine name.
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