Re: [NTG-context] Convert SVG to MetaPost

[Hans Hagen]

On 8/12/2019 1:33 PM, Jon Wong wrote:

Hi Taco!

Very enlightening!

I’ll just use both MetaPost and SVG for their intended purposes. (SVG 
will come from workflow involving GIMP/Inkscape; MetaPost for logical, 
rather than graphical, figures.)

if you have inkscape installed you can do

\externalfigure[test.svg][width=10cm]

and context will handle the conversion

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Re: [NTG-context] Convert SVG to MetaPost

[Hans Hagen]

On 8/12/2019 1:15 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Hi,


On 12 Aug 2019, at 12:10, Jon Wong  wrote:

Hi all,

Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?

Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting 
SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.

If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files 
instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF 
(via Inkscape).


SVG (and Inkscape) can do many graphical things that metapost can not do, so I 
think that would be a bad idea even if there was a tool that could do the 
conversion for some subset of SVG.

That said, SVG is just an XML format, so it should be possible to process 
simple SVG using ConTeXt’s built-in xml parser (with suitable processing 
environments, of course). How much work that would entail and whether it is
feasible depends on the actual SVG graphics.
indeed, and i actually did a partial converter a while ago just to see 
if it could be done but then decided to delay that till i really need it
(normally converting a svg to pdf is quite ok) .. i might pick it up on 
some cold winternight


Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Convert SVG to MetaPost

[Jon Wong]

Hi Taco!

Very enlightening!

I’ll just use both MetaPost and SVG for their intended purposes. (SVG will come 
from workflow involving GIMP/Inkscape; MetaPost for logical, rather than 
graphical, figures.)

Regards
Jon


> On Aug 12, 2019, at 7:30 PM, luigi scarso  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:11 PM Jon Wong  > wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
> 
> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting 
> SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
> 
> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files 
> instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF 
> (via Inkscape).
> 
> 
> you can check pstoedit 
> http://www.calvina.de/pstoedit/pstoedit.htm 
> 
> 
> it can convert postscript to metapost.
> So svg->pdf->ps->mp seems to be possible.
> Of course, I am not sure if it fits in  your workflow.
> 
> -- 
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Re: [NTG-context] Convert SVG to MetaPost

[luigi scarso]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:11 PM Jon Wong  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
>
> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape
> (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
>
> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files
> instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF
> (via Inkscape).
>
>
you can check pstoedit
http://www.calvina.de/pstoedit/pstoedit.htm

it can convert postscript to metapost.
So svg->pdf->ps->mp seems to be possible.
Of course, I am not sure if it fits in  your workflow.

-- 
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Re: [NTG-context] Convert SVG to MetaPost

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

> On 12 Aug 2019, at 12:10, Jon Wong  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
> 
> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting 
> SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
> 
> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files 
> instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF 
> (via Inkscape).

SVG (and Inkscape) can do many graphical things that metapost can not do, so I 
think that would be a bad idea even if there was a tool that could do the 
conversion for some subset of SVG.

That said, SVG is just an XML format, so it should be possible to process 
simple SVG using ConTeXt’s built-in xml parser (with suitable processing 
environments, of course). How much work that would entail and whether it is
feasible depends on the actual SVG graphics.

Best wishes,
Taco
 
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[NTG-context] Convert SVG to MetaPost

[Jon Wong]

Hi all,

Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?

Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting 
SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.

If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files 
instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF 
(via Inkscape).

Regards
Jon
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