Comment by matsemann
15 days ago
That's a very long-winded way of saying no, you haven't tried it. The point of converting something to svg is to be able to manipulate the elements, not just having an svg that mimics pixel perfect something. That's been possible for ages before llms. But the result is hardly usable if it's made up of random lines and arcs, not how someone would actually have drawn it.
Have you seen a typical SVG? No one except maybe LLMs make those semantically. It's usually just whatever InDesign or Inkscape vomited out, given construction that's about as semantic as formatting in a typical Word document.
Can you please slow down and read what's being written? Didn't even mention semantics.
One fictional example of what I mean: lets say I draw someone holding a purse. That would be a shape of their torso, with the purse overlaid. I could move those independently, and moving the purse would show the torso underneath.
However, using a png to svg, it would often just outline everything. So it's not a torso shape with a purse in front. It's a purse with a torso cut out around it, maybe even merged together as lots of individual shapes. If I were to delete the shapes making up the purse, it could be quite random what was left. Maybe some of the shapes did a double duty. Maybe it's a thousand small squares to make the purse. Maybe there is just a hole behind the purse etc.
So in the latter case, the svg isn't made up of logical elements, it's just made up of shape after shape after shape to mimic the pixels. But it's not usable as vector.