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If you begin the design with vector software then it is very easy to output it as an svg or as a pdf.
With svg even if you scale up or down the size of the image the line weight will remain at the same size. This is very critical when it comes to outputting the image to a cutting machine such as a laser cutter. Vector cutting lines need to be presented to the machines in hairline width and with that format they remain as hairline width despite scaling up or down.
In the wider world of paper crafting where people such as those who do scrapbooking offer downloads of projects the offering is typically available in both .pdf and also .svg as many people are now using electronic cutting machines to cut out around the images and also to score the fold lines.
The newer hobby craft cutters are being produced with two cutting heads allowing one to be for a knife cut all the way through the material and the other to be set for shallower cuts of for holding a tool to impress fold lines.
So if you are designing from scratch you might want to consider using .svg files to get all of that information into the file so they can be cut by people who own the desktop cutting machines. That will expand your market of clients to pick up those who are into the "machine age". Even within this forum you will see people discussing experimenting with cutting machines.
So my answer is you need to present both file types as an option for the customers to choose from instead of trying to decide on only one type. Do both, it is an advantage for increasing your income and that makes it worth doing.
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