[OSM-talk] SVG to PDF

[Oliver Reimann]

Hallo,

I had the same problem some week ago, please have a look to : 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Waschbaer

(the third script)

Grüße
Oliver


Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 10:24 schrieb Jochen Topf:
> 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