From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: "Łukasz Stelmach" <lukasz.stelmach@iem.pw.edu.pl>,
"Eric S Fraga" <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, "Rainer M Krug" <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:05:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD06F1E.9090602@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16025.1288707646@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>
Hi,
Yes, I can confirm batik-rasterizer, despite the name, made nice
vector-based PDF from SVG. Thanks, Nick.
So that's two options now, Inkscape and Batik.
Enough noise from me on this, I think.
Yours,
Christian
On 11/2/10 3:20 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Christian Moe<mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> The batik svg rasteriser page
>
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/tools/rasterizer.html
>
> says:
>
> This page describes the features of the SVG Rasterizer utility
> that comes with the Batik distribution. The SVG Rasterizer is a
> utility that can convert SVG files to a raster format. The tool
> can convert individual files or sets of files, making it easy to
> convert entire directories of SVG files. The provided formats
> are JPEG, PNG and TIFF, however the design allows new formats to
> be added easily. In addition, the rasterizer can (despite its
> name) transcode to PDF.
>
> I haven't used it at all, but that last sentence is suggestive. Maybe it
> fits the bill?
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
>
--
Christian Moe
E-mail: mail@christianmoe.com
Website: http://christianmoe.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-02 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 14:35 epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs Eric Schulte
2010-10-28 14:55 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-28 19:01 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-28 22:41 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 6:17 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-29 11:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 13:14 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-29 14:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-01 22:47 ` Christian Moe
2010-11-02 10:40 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-11-02 11:25 ` Christian Moe
2010-11-02 13:19 ` Rainer M Krug
2010-11-02 14:20 ` Nick Dokos
2010-11-02 20:05 ` Christian Moe [this message]
2010-11-02 17:51 ` Tom Short
2010-11-02 19:40 ` Christian Moe
2010-10-28 17:53 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 22:40 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 2:01 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-29 4:27 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-28 19:02 ` Łukasz Stelmach
2010-10-28 20:16 ` Scot Becker
2010-10-28 21:55 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2010-10-28 22:30 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-28 22:42 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-28 19:29 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-28 22:43 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-29 4:41 ` Eric Schulte
2010-10-28 20:30 ` Eric S Fraga
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