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

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

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