On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-06-29 um 21:46 schrieb Hans Hagen:
\usemodule[res-08] \setups[rl:manipulate]
\setupexternalfigures[location=local,directory=.,conversion=pdf] % lowres,prefix=lowres/]
\starttext
\externalfigure[svg/ausmap.svg][frame=on]
\stoptext
it assumes inkscape being present
Just wikified that and added a lot of links to SVG resources: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/SVG
Since Adobe Reader supports SVG graphics natively - perhaps we could just include them in the PDF? Here's a sample script in Perl: http://www.kevlindev.com/utilities/index.htm and Python: http://jan.kollhof.net/projects/svg/svgpdf/ I didn't look at them for I don't know the internals anyway, but I guess one could use this technique in Lua, too?
It's just a wrapper to include the image in a pdf file a object stream (or whatever this is called) and creats links to the image but I was only able to display it on windows, on Mac I saw only the text "svg into pdf".
An other way would be Cairo graphics library (also used by Mozilla) to convert SVG: http://cairographics.org There's even a Lua binding for Cairo: http://www.dynaset.org/dogusanh/download.html#cairopad But I don't really understand if Cairo is suitable to convert SVG to other than pixel graphics for screen rendering.
Apache's Batik library claims to support SVG to PDF conversion: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
So perhaps someone more qualified than me could make SVG integration for ConTeXt...
Wolfgang