[Catalyst] living without Apache 'deflate'

[John M. Dlugosz]

Since fastcgi doesn't get along with the deflate module, I've turned it off, per the 
installation instructions and Catalyst tutorials.

But I'm wondering about SVG images.  Can I pre-compress the files on disk and have the 
browser see the same thing as the deflate wrapper around the actual content type?  That's 
certainly better for the server anyway, instead of deflating it on every request.