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summary: Add thumbnailing support to media repository for SVGs
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created: 2015-04-15 11:14:39.0
creator: markjh
description: |-
  Python Image Library can't read SVG so the current PIL based thumbnailing code can't generate a thumbnail for an SVG.

  For now we might just want to return the original image since it is already scalable.
id: '11334'
key: SYN-344
number: '344'
priority: '2'
project: '10000'
reporter: markjh
status: '1'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-11-07 18:27:56.0
votes: '1'
watches: '4'
workflowId: '11434'
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actions:
- author: matthew
  body: |-
    this is starting to get annoying given our heavy use of SVGs in vector and similar.

    It's bad practice to return the raw SVG (but better than nothing) given if I upload a 2MB SVG it'd suck if everyone ended up downloading a 2MB SVG thumbnail...
  created: 2016-02-07 23:11:23.0
  id: '12594'
  issue: '11334'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2016-02-07 23:11:23.0
- author: matthew
  body: Alternatively we could do something like pyrsvg and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6589358/convert-svg-to-png-in-python
  created: 2016-04-02 02:05:16.0
  id: '12803'
  issue: '11334'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2016-04-02 02:05:16.0
- author: matthew
  body: Workaround using the original image at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/2c838f6459db35ad9812a83184d85a06ca5d940a. Closing this to hand over to that PR
  created: 2016-04-02 22:59:44.0
  id: '12804'
  issue: '11334'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2016-04-02 22:59:44.0
- author: matthew
  body: had to back this out due to https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/bd77216d06518ace2ec6213aa0ac0c834e923456
  created: 2016-04-14 15:01:55.0
  id: '12822'
  issue: '11334'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2016-04-14 15:01:55.0
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1309'
  created: 2016-11-07 18:27:56.0
  id: '13630'
  issue: '11334'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-11-07 18:27:56.0