[OSM-talk] SVG to PDF

[Jochen Topf]

Same problem as with all the other methods: It looks good in Acrobat 7,
but not in most other viewers.

Jochen

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:40:33PM +0100, Oliver Reimann wrote:
> 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
> 
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