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		XCSme on Sept 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and... All I can think is how inefficient it is to download text as a JPG. It would be cool if he first converted it to SVG. For example this image is 344KB: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0dbd41d1d25c... Using a basic online JPG->SVG converter ( https://tracesvg.com/uploads/1631702350_latest_part_1B_1.jpg... ) it goes to around 90KB (~4x smaller) and it should be a lot smaller with some basic curve optimizations.

jakehop on Sept 15, 2021 [–]

Perhaps that’s the next cool idea for a business?

While not wanting to sound too negative in this response, I didn’t even consider the file size, but rather the creative possibilities that opens up when one successfully breaks with an otherwise common format and merges it with a new one.

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