On Thursday 20 September 2007 09:38, Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 15:24, bulia byak wrote:
On 9/19/07, Claus Cyrny <claus.cyrny@...22...> wrote:
I got good results using ImageMagick (IM) for this. That way, I can even export SVGs as 16-bit /channel (but I guess that you only need 8-bit).
Imagemagick rasterizes SVG and makes a PDF with embedded bitmap. I assume what the original poster wanted was vector PDF.
Is there any way to make Imagemagick (convert) not rasterize the PDF? Could I perhaps save as a different vector format and go from there?
Thanks for this insight. I never knew there was such a thing as a vector PDF.
A little googling turned up the fact that this is a well known problem, discussed since at least 2005. So far it looks like the recommended solution is to use Batik (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/) plus FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) to convert from standard SVG to vector PDF. It doesn't look at all trivial, so if anyone's done this already, please tell us how you did it.
I also found a reference that the Inkscape project was working on a vector PDF writer, but can't remember where I found it.
SteveT
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