Re: [pdftex] Re: .svg and pdflatex
Hans Hagen wrote: > Since there are svg viewers, why not write a plugin into acrobat? > [unfortunately, the movie plugin does not not support the quite powerful > applescripting which is part of the movie spec] Because most users won't install a plugin. But since the SVG viewer is part of newer Acrobat readers, Adobe may support it in a future version... Yours, Tobias Haustein -- Dipl. Inform. Tobias Haustein aixigo AG - financial training, research and technology Schloß-Rahe-Straße 15, 52072 Aachen, Germany fon: +49 (0)241 936737-40, fax: +49 (0)241 936737-99 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.aixigo.de
Re: [pdftex] Re: .svg and pdflatex
At 10:30 AM 11/28/2002 +0100, Tobias Haustein wrote: Martin Schroeder wrote: > Noone has reported about this yet. You would need to convert the > .svg to something pdfTeX can handle, i.e. Metapost, pdf, jpeg or > png. Metapost should be possible. pdf seems doable if you use an > svg parser and a pdf lib. I don't know of such a solution. SVG is a lot more powerful than PDF since it allows filter effects and animation. The other advanced features of SVG can be emulated with more or less effort. The filter effects can be approximated but you need to define a resolution to do them. Therefore, you loose the vector properties of SVG. An SVG to PDF converter that ignores filter effects and animation shouldn't be too hard to write. We've discussed this and decided to write a PDF parser instead. Our graphics library is then used to render the parsed graphic primitives in order to generate either PDF, SVG, Flash (SWF) or raster graphics (GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF). Since there are SVG parsers readily available (e.g. Batik from the Apache project), such a converter shouldn't be too hard. Since there are svg viewers, why not write a plugin into acrobat? [unfortunately, the movie plugin does not not support the quite powerful applescripting which is part of the movie spec] Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com - information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -
Re: [pdftex] Re: .svg and pdflatex
Martin Schroeder wrote: > Noone has reported about this yet. You would need to convert the > .svg to something pdfTeX can handle, i.e. Metapost, pdf, jpeg or > png. Metapost should be possible. pdf seems doable if you use an > svg parser and a pdf lib. I don't know of such a solution. SVG is a lot more powerful than PDF since it allows filter effects and animation. The other advanced features of SVG can be emulated with more or less effort. The filter effects can be approximated but you need to define a resolution to do them. Therefore, you loose the vector properties of SVG. An SVG to PDF converter that ignores filter effects and animation shouldn't be too hard to write. We've discussed this and decided to write a PDF parser instead. Our graphics library is then used to render the parsed graphic primitives in order to generate either PDF, SVG, Flash (SWF) or raster graphics (GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF). Since there are SVG parsers readily available (e.g. Batik from the Apache project), such a converter shouldn't be too hard. Yours, Tobias Haustein -- Dipl. Inform. Tobias Haustein aixigo AG - financial training, research and technology Schloß-Rahe-Straße 15, 52072 Aachen, Germany fon: +49 (0)241 936737-40, fax: +49 (0)241 936737-99 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], web: http://www.aixigo.de
