No preview for svg

[airtonix]

Since sublime text provides previews for bitmap images, what are the difficulties involved with providing previews for SVGs?

[FichteFoll]

I suppose writing and/or bundling a compressed image format renderer is much easier than something scalable and XML-like, which svg is.

Besides, you can edit svg by hand (since it's xml), so there's that.

[QuentinFchx]

:+1: This would definitely be useful !

[vstoykov]

Yes SVGs are XML, but nobody edit them by hand. If you want to edit SVG you will use software for image manipulation.

If there is a preview in Sublime (like other images) this would be great especially for WEB developers.

[atomless]

+1

[andymantell]

"Nobody edits them by hand" is simply not true so making them preview in the same way as other images would get in the way of that. Sounds like a job for a plugin really, rather than core. Something like this: https://github.com/peterflynn/svg-preview

[OtaK]

:+1: That would be great to implement, whether as a core functionality or as a plugin.

[IamSwap]

+1

[FichteFoll]

Please use Github's reactions instead of "+1"ing posts. Thank you.

I've updated the readme of this repo to include a reference to reactions. Any further "+1" comment will be deleted without notice.

[iManu]

In my case it would be usefull to have a preview in popin (on cursor ?) while selecting/hovering svg element, in any file type like .twig, .js, .css… I don't need editing mode in first time.

[AmjadHD]

In my case it would be usefull to have a preview in popin (on cursor ?) while selecting/hovering svg element, in any file type like .twig, .js, .css…

@iManu, you should check Hover Image Preview