--- In [email protected], John Delacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Resuming a question I have let lie for nearly a year ... > > At 23:15 +0000 1/1/08, John Delacour wrote: > > >Can you explain why nobody has yet produced software to convert SVG > >to a PDF vector format? > > At 07:13 -0500 2/1/08, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > > >...There are numerous products on the market that can convert SVG->PDF with > >full vector fidelity. I wrote the first one back around 1997, though it's > >no longer available. Today, you can certainly use Adobe Illustrator on the > >commercial side or free solutions such as Inkscape to perform the > >operation. If what you really want is DXF, then you can go direct from > >SVG->DXF with Illustrator as well or some other products on the market. > > Well, in Mac OS X, I tried printing (as PDF) an svg file from Opera > and discovered that not only is it impossible to do the page set-up > in Opera but the resulting file is, as I was expecting, a bit-map > file. So I decided to print from Safari instead. I discovered to my > surprise that the PDF produced is a vector file. I then did the same > in Shiretoko/Firefox with the same pleasing results. > > Can anyone tell me what engine Safari and Firefox use for this > conversion, whether it's the same engine in both cases and why Opera > does not use it? > > JD
You can create PDF files of SVG from Safari?? Please, tell me the trick. I just get a blank page except for the page headers, the same as when I do Print Preview. FWIW, I'm running OS X 10.4, Safari 3.2.1 with the ASV 3.0 plugin. BTW, Firefox 3.0.4 works fine. Here's a sample file: http://homepage.mac.com/nellisks/stereo_svg/wireFrames/trunc_oct.svg Ken, new member, stereogram enthusiast ------------------------------------ ----- 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/
