At 08:24 -0500 20/12/07, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: >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 Illustrator).
At 22:28 -0500 26/12/07, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: >Some of other methods were dropped by Adobe in Acrobat 7, and the >rest in Acrobat 8.1. Use of these methods is officially deprecated in >the version of the PDF Reference that is now under the auspices of the ISO Hello Leonard, and a happy New Year! Can you explain why nobody has yet produced software to convert SVG to a PDF vector format? I understand it is not beyond the wit of man. As you say, it is simple enough to produce a rasterized PDF file from SVG but what is the use of that! Can Adobe Illustrator produce vector PDFs from SVG source? If not, at the price, why not? At the moment I am forced to use Satimage's Smile to achieve what I want, which is to produce scalable drawings and movie frames as vector PDF files that can also be converted, using other free software, to DXF files for CNC machines etc. Smile is excellent, but in spite of long familiarity with AppleScript, I hate to have to use it when there is an alternative, and I prefer to use Perl and SVG, which means, apart from the convenience of the languages, that I can serve custom-ordered drawings from any old Unix server. If only the browsers would provide acceptable support for animation I could also serve movies to clients' specifications instead scripting the production of a QuickTime movie using Smile. In my short acquaintance with SVG it seems to provide everything I require, and production of the files, using my own home-made Perl module is a breeze, but everything connected with SVG seems to be half-baked and progressing very slowly. No doubt Adobe has no complaints about that, but what do _you_ think about it? JD ----- 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/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
