Hi Steve,

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:52:15 -0500 Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:33:49 -0500 John Culleton <John@...1668...> wrote:

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If I save a vector drawing as a pdf file is the drawing still in vector form or does it convert to a bitmap?

I don't know, but here's my dia2pdf.sh shellscript:

================================================= #!/bin/sh dianame=$1 gname=`echo $dianame | sed -e "s/..*$//"` pdfname=$gname.pdf echo Converting $dianame to $pdfname #inkscape --export-text-to-path --export-pdf=$pdfname $dianame #inkscape --export-embed-fonts --export-use-hints --export-background=#ffffff --export-area-drawing --export-pdf=$pdfname $dianame inkscape

--export-area-drawing --export-pdf=$pdfname $dianame acroread $pdfname

Why is your shell code lacking quotes around variable expansions? See:

* http://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/14671.html

* http://perl-begin.org/topics/security/code-markup-injection/

(Note: both are my own resources).

This is a potential source of trouble (w.r.t to your troubleshooters site).

Regards,

Shlomi Fish