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Create and color map zones freehand. Create and color independent zones in Inkscape starting from a map showing borders of countries or other zones. (See also next tutorial.) Cut a map into several sub-areas: fr: Inkscape Cut a map into several sub-areas. (Should replace the preceding tutorial.) Draw roads and railroads: fr: Inkscape
A "bad" SVG can be identified because it will convert slowly (more than 5 seconds), it will be very large for an SVG (over 500kB-1MB) and it will render very slowly on WP - there is a long wait while the text and other images on the page are loaded, but the SVG image does not show up. Bad SVGs put a lot of strain on the Wiki servers.
Select the page of the PDF you are interested in if the PDF is a multi-page document (Illustrator will only open one page at a time). Go to File > Save As (Shift + Ctrl + S). From the Format drop-down menu, select SVG (*.SVG). Save As. In the resulting dialog box: Under SVG Profiles, choose a profile (usually SVG 1.0 or SVG 1.1).
I created this image as a replacement for a PNG (It's summary read: "This image is a temporary placeholder for articles (mostly those utilizing the table from Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tables) which still need a picture to illustrate them. You can help by uploading an image for any of the articles listed below under "File links"." - Written ...
Open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator. Go to File > Save As (Shift + Ctrl + S). From the Format drop-down menu, select SVG (*.SVG). Save As. In the resulting dialog box: Under SVG Profiles, choose a profile (usually SVG 1.0 or SVG 1.1). Under Type, if you are not using web-safe fonts, select Convert to outline. (Warning: this greatly increases the ...
Here is the same example again, this time in the context of some colored lorem ipsum dummy text with asterisks (*) showing where the image syntax appears in the text: [[ File : Wikipedesketch.png | thumb | left | alt = A cartoon centipede reads books and types on a laptop. | The Wikipede edits '' [[ Myriapoda ]] '' .
MediaWiki converts the SVG image to a PNG image. The SVG format is the working format of the stored image so that people can more easily convert images for use in different languages. If you're using a browser other than Internet Explorer, just keep clicking the image and you'll eventually get the full-size image, which will be the SVG version ...
The fix is to open the SVG file in a text editor, find the <image> element, locate "image/jpg", change it to "image/jpeg" and re-save. At right is an example of this problem. The Commons SVG Checker looks for this problem; see Commons:Commons:Commons SVG Checker/KnownBugs#Checks for details.