

An SVG file will probably display better in your web browser than it will in GIMP. You can open SVG files, but that’s about it. GIMP does have limited support for the web-friendly vector format SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), but when I say limited support, I really mean it. The strokes, fills, and patterns of your shapes are all rasterized as pixels immediately, and never exist as vector data. The Paths tool in GIMP does use a Bezier curve system in the same way that vector graphics programs create shapes, but these paths are only used as a means of defining specific areas for pixel editing. GIMP is a raster image editor, which means it creates and edits pixels, not vectors. Creating vector images from pixel images is useful for a lot of different design projects, but I have to tell you right from the start that GIMP is not designed for creating vector images.
