[OSM-talk] SVG to PDF

[SteveC]

* @ 19/12/06 11:42:02 AM sxpert at sxpert.org wrote:
> 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...

...which spits out rasters (I found out the hard way)

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have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/