Re: converting/including SVG

[Reimer Behrends]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
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> The 'convert' program that comes as part of the ImageMagick package can
> perform SVG to EPS conversions, but the tool I'd recommend is 'sketch'
> which can load SVG and save as EPS; sketch seems to do a much better job
> of this particular conversion than convert, but has the disadvantage
> that you have to do it manually through the GUI rather than using a
> command line. Both ImageMagick and sketch are open source.

Using sketch on the commandline to convert SVG to EPS:

        sk2ps input.svg >output.eps

Note that sketch/sk2ps can also handle other vector-based input formats,
such as WMF and CGM.

                        Reimer Behrends