Re: [svg-developers] SVG, Batik, FOP, scripting, and converting to PDF

2008-01-07 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Leonard Rosenthol wrote: Assuming you wish compatibility with all versions of Adobe Acrobat/Reader on all OS platforms - there is no way to embed SVG scripting into the PDF. Leonard On 1/7/08, Z T Minhas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ztminhas%40yahoo.com wrote: hi, I have a SVG file which i am

Re: [svg-developers] Converting SVG to PDF

2008-01-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
- either as it was before or perhaps as part of a conversion to XML similar to our own Mars project. I would certainly recommend that anyone interested please join the ISO committee and make their desires heard. Leonard Rosenthol Adobe Systems On 1/2/08, Doug Schepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Converting SVG to PDF

2008-01-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
, Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey John - Happy New Year, back at you! There are numerous products on the market that can convert SVG-PDF with full vector fidelity. I wrote the first one back around 1997, though it's no longer available. Today, you can certainly use Adobe

Re: [svg-developers] Converting SVG to PDF

2008-01-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Hey John - Happy New Year, back at you! There are numerous products on the market that can convert SVG-PDF with full vector fidelity. I wrote the first one back around 1997, though it's no longer available. Today, you can certainly use Adobe Illustrator on the commercial side or free solutions

Re: [svg-developers] Converting SVG to PDF

2007-12-26 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
. Leonard Rosenthol PDF Standards Evangelist Adobe Systems - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click edit my membership Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com

Re: [svg-developers] Converting SVG to PDF

2007-12-20 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
There is no way to convert SVG-PDF and preserve the interactivity and animation, unless you want to actually convert the SVG to something like Flash/SWF and then embed the Flash/SWF. For print, there are numerous SVG-PDF converters out there from open source (like Inkscape) to commercial (Adobe

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe extends ASV customer support again

2007-08-24 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
will not include SVG support. Leonard On 8/23/07, Domenico Strazzullo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com, Leonard Rosenthol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if Adobe is pursuing ASV or not (though I suspect not), Leonard, First

Re: [svg-developers] SVG in iPhone

2007-06-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
It was made VERY CLEAR yesterday at WWDC that the version of Safari in Leopard will be the EXACT SAME version as on the iPhone, and on Windows (when it goes 1.0). So yes, whatever SVG supports in Safari on the desktop will also function 100% identically on the iPhone. Leonard On 6/12/07, Jon

Re: [svg-developers] Mars and svg specifications

2006-12-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
There are a few places that we had to extend SVG to support features in PDF, including in the areas of colorspaces, transparency and prepress functionality. All of our extensions are documented and should also be namespaced. Leonard Rosenthol Adobe Systems On 12/10/06, pilatfr [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [svg-developers] Mars and svg specifications

2006-12-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
We support icc-color() as well as the SVG 1.2 device colors. Leonard On 12/12/06, Jon Ferraiolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will point out that device-color() was a feature (still is a feature?) that was listed in drafts of SVG 1.2. So, even with this syntax extension, Adobe has attempted to

Re: [svg-developers] Mars and svg specifications

2006-12-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Yes. We would indeed like to bring our extensions back to the W3C at some point. Leonard On 12/12/06, Antoine Quint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 déc. 2006, at 06:08, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: There are a few places that we had to extend SVG to support features in PDF, including

Re: [svg-developers] For paper or for online? (was: Adobe Mars: static SVG inside PDF)

2006-11-04 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 11/3/06, CPK Smithies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For present purposes, the significant issue is that SVG - and XML projects generally - are being designed to support the ordering and design of information in a logical way. The presumption is that the more logically information is structured,

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe Mars: static SVG inside PDF

2006-11-03 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 11/2/06, Doug Schepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, please don't take what I say next personally. ;) Also, these are my views, not necessarily those of the SVG WG. I won't - don't worry! In exchange, you can't take my comment as attacks on SVG or the work of the committee... I'm

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe Mars: static SVG inside PDF

2006-11-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 11/2/06, Andreas Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, Mars will be a plugin to Acrobat Reader and full version. Initially, this is true. Remember that, TODAY, Mars is just a technology preview from Adobe. It is not (yet) a product or an official deliverable. We have

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe Mars: static SVG inside PDF

2006-11-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 11/2/06, brucerindahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info. I was interested until I looked at the specs on your site. I am currently using Batik to convert SVG to PDF and thought Mars would be a far easier solution. Depending on what you are doing, and when/how you plan to

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe Mars: static SVG inside PDF

2006-11-02 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 11/2/06, Andreas Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The lack of some of the text features, markers and textpath hurts and is certainly a problem when it comes to creating maps on demand or other more complex graphics. The issue is that although we are using SVG syntax, we are using it

Re: [svg-developers] Adobe Mars: static SVG inside PDF

2006-11-01 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 10/31/06, Andreas Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like SVG is not yet dead inside Adobe. Not at all! Here is another project by Adobe to embed static SVG inside a Mars file format, which is basically a zip folder containing xml files (one per page) which links to

Re: [svg-developers] PDF to SVG

2006-09-27 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 9/27/06, vic_snap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the key areas of interest for us lies in the conversion of PDF to SVG. We are aware of several commercial tools on the market for this conversion, but we have not had satisfactory results from them as of yet. Can you give us some idea of

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Announcement: Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer

2006-09-08 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
On 9/6/06, jon_ferraiolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pat, Now that I am a member of the community and no longer an employee of Adobe, here is my reaction: As of when??!?!?!!? What happened??? Leonard [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - To unsubscribe send a

RE: [svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
We like xml because it is The Great Panacea. What else do we need? I agree that XML is a wonderful thing...I spend lots of time in XML myself (and have for almost 10 years now). I do not, however, consider it the great panacea. There are many things for which it is NOT

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Perhaps because of Sax, Xerces, Xalan, JDom, SOAP, MSXML, XSLT, XPath or perhaps simply because I can read the file and grab what I want/need? More specifically, because you can use the tools you ALREADY KNOW... There are similar tools for many of those things for

RE: [svg-developers] Why is being in XML better? (was Re: Adobe/Macromedia)

2005-12-08 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Every time someone introduces an extra XML language, all that I have to learn is what is *specific* to that language, nothing else. With other formats, you also have to pick up the tools, the quirks, the modes of publishing, etc.. Granted that learning a new grammar is easily than

RE: [svg-developers] SVG to PDF or Printable Press Solution

2005-11-29 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
My company currently uses SVGs on our website for dynamic product creation. Once the product is created we have a long drawn out process of taking these files and making them printable. OK. Now, define printable. What color model(s) do you require? RGB? CMYK?

RE: [svg-developers] svg in pdf?

2005-04-12 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
Can dynamic svg objects be embedded in a pdf document? Yes. Acrobat 6 offered more support than Acrobat 7 (they removed some of the SVG support), but there are still ways to incorporate fully interactive SVG content into a PDF. Leonard - To unsubscribe send a message

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe please distribute SVG Viewer ...MASSIVELY !!!

2005-02-11 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
you did not recognize my substantial point. What would have been necessary for svg to gain currency? What would have been necessary is for many of the companies that invested in SVG (Corel, Beatware, etc.) to have not disappeared during the .BOMB era and to have been the technology

RE: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe please distribute SVG Viewer ...MASSIVELY !!!

2005-02-10 Thread Leonard Rosenthol
descbiassed readers, skip this ;-)/desc Yet again, xaml is in the position to compete with pdf. This time the dominant ms windows user squad will get powerful native os (+hardware) display support and a xaml document generator on board. There's one thing for sure, MS will get the