2010/4/1 Artem Pavlenko <[email protected]>: >> I haven't read about how an SVG image can be embedded in a PDF file. My >> question is, would this require the implementation of a separate PDF >> renderer for SVG, just as Robert Coup says about a Cairo-based one? >> > > OK, SVG->PDF needs some r&d, it should be easy, though. > > re:Cairo - it hasn't fine control required to implement features we're > discussing, Robert could verify this please? >
It does stuff well, but it does lack flexibility. Last time I looked it didn't do things like layers, re-using symbols, etc - it was reasonably "dumb". Would need some more investigation. Might be an option to work on Cairo to improve it if all it needs is some better hooks for client apps to do things at various points during the process... Converting SVG to PDF is reasonably straightforward, as they're both vector formats. I think there are also a number of tools to add PDF docs together (at a sub-page level). Rob :) _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
