Re: Re: epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs

From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
Cc: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>,
	"Eric S Fraga" <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:25:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CCFF539.2010107@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimBWtB6=ZaD6GQoQhmKwa5USeSLF_MnU4fbwoPP@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

the librsvg man page says PNG and JPEG raster formats only.

CM

On 11/2/10 11:40 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com
> <mailto:mail@christianmoe.com>> wrote:
>
>     Re: converting SVG
>
>
> Have you looked at rsvg  (http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/)?
>
> I am not sure if it uses vector for pdf, but it might be worth a try?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>     1. Prince (http://www.princexml.com) does SVG to PDF as vector
>     graphics from the command line, very nicely. Too bad it's proprietary.
>
>     e.g.
>
>     : prince drawing.svg drawing.pdf
>
>     2. Ask Inkscape -- it's free software; unfortunately, the result
>     is rasterized.
>
>     e.g.
>
>     : inkscape --without-gui --export-text-to-path
>     --export-eps=drawing.eps drawing.svg
>
>      >From a sample 52 KB SVG file, Inkscape gives me a 420 KB EPS and
>     Prince a 20 KB PDF.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Christian
>
>
>
>     On 10/29/10 4:19 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
>         Łukasz Stelmach<lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl
>         <mailto:lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>>  writes:
>
>             Eric S Fraga<ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk <mailto:ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>>
>               writes:
>
>                 ImageMagick [1] will convert from/to SVG to/from many
>                 formats including
>                 EPS.  I've not tried any conversions with SVG, mind
>                 you, so this is
>                 based on the documentation.
>
>
>             I'll check it, but I'm afraid it does render SVG as bitmap
>             first,
>             and then "converts", or rather encapsulates, it to
>             EPS/PDF. ImageMagick
>             is a bitmap manipulation tool after all.
>
>
>         Very true.  For presentations, this may not be that much of an
>         issue
>         (given the resolution of many data projectors)... but it's a
>         very valid
>         point.
>
>         Do let us know if you find a vector based converter.
>
>         Thanks,
>         eric
>
>
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