[OSM-talk] SVG to PDF

[raphael Jacquot]

Jochen Topf a écrit :
> Hi!
> 
> Is anybody aware of any Open Source software which turns SVG into PDF
> keeping the data as vectors and not rasterizing it? Inkscape, rsvg,
> batik all rasterize the image and then put it into the PS/PDF. You'll see
> that if you zoom in. But PDF is a vector format, so it could be done
> better. This is obviously difficult in cases where you use the more
> advances features of SVG like filtering, but in our case with the maps it
> should work just fine.
> 
> If we want high quality printable maps, we need to create PDFs in some
> way and instead of re-inventing the wheel I'd rather use osmarender to
> create SVG and the PDF from there.
> 
> Jochen

this should be doable using cairo, which possess a pdf output backend...