Re: converting/including SVG

[Mark Summerfield]

On Saturday 26 October 2002 18:20 pm, Ben Saylor wrote:
> convert seems to rasterize the svg, and sketch-0.7.11 can't even import
> it (just shows up blank, as do many other svgs I tried with it) :(  So
> for now I'm just taking the full-page .ps and editing %%BoundingBox
> according to the output of gs -sDEVICE=bbox.  It doesn't use the actual
> canvas size of the svg, but at least it gives better results than
> before.

I thought the sketch 0.7.x series was for developers; I use 0.6.13 which
seems to be fine.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:47:16AM -0400, Reimer Behrends wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > 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

-- 
Mark.