11 Dec
2005
11 Dec
'05
11:55 a.m.
Anyway, to keep this email short, I'm going to gloss over a lot of details and just post the link:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PrintingConsensusPoll
I'd like to suggest looking at Xpdf or ghostview as possible bases to build a pdftosvg tool with. They both come with command line tools to convert pdf files to other formats.
I wrote my own pdf/ai to svg converter not long ago by using Xpdf after having found that ipe (http://ipe.compgeom.org/) has such a pdftoipe tool. Within a day I was able to at least have basic strokes, fills and texts converted. For me it was easier to re-add patterns or shades from Inkscape than try to extend the converter further (mainly because i really don't know anything about svg. working with xpdf was extremely easy).