On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Christian Moe
<mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:
Re: converting SVG
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> writes:
Eric S Fraga<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