David,

One approach would be to write a PostScript renderer, i.e., someting
that is able to turn a PostScript file into Java 2D API calls. Then,
using the Batik SVGGraphics2D you could turn your PostScript into
SVG. This is the approach for WMF -> SVG converter that Batik contains.

Cheers.
V.

David Waite wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone knows of an existing open-source project to
> convert what I'll call the "Adobe Formats" to SVG.  I'm trying to do
> some work with Docbook-xml and Fop, but it looks like images either have
> to be rasterized (yuck) or be in SVG.
> 
> If there isn't anything currently out there to do this, does anyone know
> what amount of work it would be to do for someone like myself to write a
> postscript->svg converter?
> Perhaps for someone who is unfamiliar with Batik, Postscript and
> SVG? ;-)
> 
> [not on list, please cc me on replies]
> 
> -David Waite
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