Add an SVG export option to store pictures smaller

An SVG keeps every picture at full resolution, whatever size it is
drawn at: a folio with 22 phone photos shown at a tenth of their size
gave a 270 MB SVG and took 65 s to write, most of it compressing the
photos again.

The export dialog gets "SVG: smaller pictures" (off by default, kept
with the other export settings), and --export-svg gets
--svg-small-pictures. With it, a picture is stored at four times the
size it is drawn at when that is smaller than the picture; smaller
pictures stay whole. Four times is about 375 dpi on a printed folio.

The exporter sets Diagram::smallPictures() for its own drawing only,
so screen, print, PDF and PNG are unchanged. It is not part of
applyProperties(), which every format uses.

On that project: --export-svg 84.9 s -> 34.5 s (opening is 20 s of
both), 270 MB -> 57 MB, peak memory 2.45 -> 1.86 GB. Rendered at twice
the folio size, the two SVGs differ by more than 32/255 on 0.23 % of
pixels, along photo detail.

tst_svgsmallpictures: an 800x600 picture drawn at 0.1 is stored at
320x240 with the option, through --export-svg and through the
dialog's QPicture route, and at 800x600 without it; a 40x30 picture
stays whole. It fails when the factor is changed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ class ExportPropertiesWidget : public QWidget {
QCheckBox *draw_colored_conductors;
QCheckBox *dxf_blocks;
QCheckBox *dxf_attributes;
QCheckBox *svg_small_pictures;
QRadioButton *export_border;
QRadioButton *export_elements;
QButtonGroup *exported_content_choices;