: EPS files exported by Illustrator are ca. 2 MB while SVG version is 30 kB I worked on a couple of vector images in Illustrator CC, and saved them both as EPS and SVG. For some reason,

@Hamaas979

With such a huge differences in file size, I would strongly guess that your graphics contains elements with properties that are contained in the SVG standard but not in the EPS standard, such as transparency. Thus, when exporting, your program rasterises thes elements and thus blows up the file size.

I suggest exporting to export to PDF instead, as I am aware of nothing that is contained in the PDF and not in the SVG standard. And embedding PDFs into LaTeX is no problem (unless you cannot use PDFLaTeX or similar for some reason).

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@Murray976

You're using two separate languages.

SVG code is written in XML. EPS is written in postscript. XML has always been cleaner and less complicated than postscript. I don't know that there's any way to compare the two in terms of file size generated. Postscript will simply always be larger.

There may be ways to reduce your EPS file though... combining shapes, eliminating unnecessary anchor points, clearing out all unused swatches, brushes, disabling the PDF compatibility (may or may not be a good idea for LaTeX).

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