[OSM-talk] SVG to PDF

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:20:04PM +0000, Robert Scott wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 December 2006 14:26, SteveC wrote:
> > > this should be doable using cairo, which possess a pdf output backend...
> >
> > ...which spits out rasters (I found out the hard way)
> 
> This is true for cairo 1.0. Cairo 1.2 emits vectors for as much as possible in 
> PDFs.
> 
> And cairo 1.4 is on its way already.

Ah, that might be good news. I just tried cairo and it produces smooth
PDF with a little test SVG but failes to render a map file I tried. Just
stoppes with an error message thats not telling me anything.

Have you tried it yourself and gotten somewhere?

Jochen
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