Can someone suggest another SVG to PDF converter which will preserve transparency? I tried Cairo's svg2pdf, but it just segfaults midway through processing the file.
Transparency is a feature of PDF1.4 which isn't all that well-supported. It's unfortunate, because with transparency you can do many simple beautiful effects in SVG.
I have had a degree of success with batik, from the Apache project. It is mostly billed as a "SVC rasterizer" but it can also "transcode" SVG to PDF. Sometimes it eats my fonts, sometimes it eats my arrow-heads, but 98% of the time it does exactly what I want.
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
The software itself is Free, but it depends on non-free components of the sun JVM, and doesn't currently work with gcj. Hopefully that will change soon.
...Eric
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