I would need to embed some SVG images into a ConTeXt document. I have done some research on the topic, and the seemingly trivial task seems all but impossible. I found a few solutions, but none of them fits my needs: - I want to have my vector images in vector format (i.e., no Inkscape-to-PNG) - alpha-channel transparency is used in the images, and it should be present in the PDF file, as well (i.e., no Inkscape-to-EPS) - if I used commercial products, I would not use SVG (i.e., the converter should be open source) The images have been (will be) created with Inkscape. While being otherwise a surprisingly nice piece of software, Inkscape does not seem to export PDF for some reason or another (licencing, time, etc.). I have the impression I just ran out of luck. Did I? - Ville
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 13:05 schrieb Ville Voipio:
I would need to embed some SVG images - I want to have my vector images in vector format (i.e., no Inkscape-to-PNG)
- alpha-channel transparency is used in the images, and it should be present in the PDF file, as well (i.e., no Inkscape-to-EPS)
- if I used commercial products, I would not use SVG (i.e., the converter should be open source)
Skencil http://www.skencil.org can open and save SVG and exports to PDF via reportlab. As I have not worked with transparency yet I do not know if that works all the way from SVG to PDF. Could you post me a little sample image to run it through Skencil? Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht -- Dr. Tobias Hilbricht Linopus Satz und Grafik www.linopus.de
Skencil http://www.skencil.org can open and save SVG and exports to PDF via reportlab. As I have not worked with transparency yet I do not know if that works all the way from SVG to PDF. Could you post me a little sample image to run it through Skencil?
All right. I sent some files to Tobias (above), and he very kindly made some experiments. Skencil could not do this (alas!) but Scribus did it almost correctly. Scribus seems to have some problem with alpha channel gradients, but the problem looks like a problem with some color correction/conversion, not a real SVG/PDF issue. I will go on experimenting and report here if I find out something more. - Ville
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 14:07 schrieb Ville Voipio:
Scribus did it almost correctly. Scribus seems to have some problem with alpha channel gradients, but the problem looks like a problem with some color correction/conversion, not a real SVG/PDF issue.
Hello Ville, for the first test of which I sent you the result I used the current stable version 1.2.4.1 of Scribus. The developer release 1.3.2 of Scribus is a bit more verbose upon opening of your test.svg and says that this SVG contains features not yet fully supported in Scribus - I guess it is these alpha channel gradients? But I just read that there is a native ConTeXt solution. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht -- Dr. Tobias Hilbricht Linopus Satz und Grafik www.linopus.de
Cairo (www.cairographics.org) plus a librsvg development version
(librsvg.sourceforge.net) seem be able to produce pdf from svg but i
haven't tried it yet. You also need a bit of code.
On 1/26/06, Ville Voipio
I would need to embed some SVG images into a ConTeXt document. I have done some research on the topic, and the seemingly trivial task seems all but impossible.
I found a few solutions, but none of them fits my needs:
- I want to have my vector images in vector format (i.e., no Inkscape-to-PNG)
- alpha-channel transparency is used in the images, and it should be present in the PDF file, as well (i.e., no Inkscape-to-EPS)
- if I used commercial products, I would not use SVG (i.e., the converter should be open source)
The images have been (will be) created with Inkscape. While being otherwise a surprisingly nice piece of software, Inkscape does not seem to export PDF for some reason or another (licencing, time, etc.).
I have the impression I just ran out of luck. Did I?
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Ville Voipio wrote:
I would need to embed some SVG images into a ConTeXt document. I have done some research on the topic, and the seemingly trivial task seems all but impossible.
I found a few solutions, but none of them fits my needs:
- I want to have my vector images in vector format (i.e., no Inkscape-to-PNG)
- alpha-channel transparency is used in the images, and it should be present in the PDF file, as well (i.e., no Inkscape-to-EPS)
- if I used commercial products, I would not use SVG (i.e., the converter should be open source)
The images have been (will be) created with Inkscape. While being otherwise a surprisingly nice piece of software, Inkscape does not seem to export PDF for some reason or another (licencing, time, etc.).
see link below
I have the impression I just ran out of luck. Did I?
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xmanipulate.pdf so, you can let context do runtime conversions and it will only convert when the graphic is updated probably one of those manuals that nobody noticed -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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