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

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Correction:

Inkscape /does/ convert SVG to EPS with vector format.
Of course.

It also does really nice vector export to PDF.

Apologies all round (and to the nice people at Inkscape in 
particular), and thanks to Tom Short for setting me straight.

I was fooled by a test drawing that was exported with "fallback" 
raster images as well as vector graphics. My viewer (Preview) 
apparently showed them and not the scalable vector version. The 
fallback images account for the file size I got (I had no text, hence 
no embedded fonts), and for the pixellated edges when I scaled up the 
image. (This turned out to be fixable by just opening the EPS in Emacs 
and cutting out all the fallback images. That also removed transparent 
parts and gradients.)

I think maybe the use of transparency, which EPS does not support (or 
am I wrong about that too?) was the reason I saw raster images in the 
first place. A simple SVG circle was exported to EPS with no fallback.

More on the options here:

http://inkscape.modevia.com/inkscape-man.html

Yours,
Christian


On 11/2/10 6:51 PM, Tom Short wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Christian Moe<mail@christianmoe.com>  wrote:
>> Re: converting SVG
>>
>> 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.
>
> What features does Inkscape rasterize? I just tried a sample file, and
> I don't see any rasterization. What takes up room in my test file is
> embedded font information.
>
> - Tom
>


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