Spent last week finishing up my individual research project, 'Evolution of the Electronic Calendar: Introducing Social Calendaring'. The paper consists of a brief history of the electronic calendar and a proposal for a framework to add social navigation/translucency to existing calendar applications. Maybe a candidate for this whole network-desktop idea thats been floating about recently? *Many* thanks to Apache for fop/batik that allowed me to get from an Inkscape svg to a pdf; an otherwise, seemingly, impossible task.
Paper [src]
Poster [src]
Presentation [src]
anon says:
Inkscape has the following parameter:
-A, --export-pdf=FILENAME Export document to a PDF file
Didn't that work?
Chris Lord says:
Inkscape's export of all formats is completely useless - even printing to a .ps file. The best result is you export mostly ok, but you lose translucency - the worst result is 40+ meg PDFs that bear very little resemblance to the original document.
Emmanuel says:
Hi,
Could you post a link to the original SVG file ? I would like to give a try at using librsvg for the conversion. The resulting PDF file looks simple and I would be surprised librsvg wouldn't work. Using trunk librsvg and latest cairo should produce a pDF file with selectable text.
Emmanuel says:
I'm dumb. I didn't see the src link.
And librsvg rsvg-convert fails miserably on the SVG file conversion.
LionsPhil says:
These are the Makefile rules I used to get from SVG to PDF for use by LaTeX:
%.eps: %.svg
inkscape -z -f $< -T -B -E $@
%.pdf: %.eps
epstopdf $<
You need the -T flag to Inkscape if you're a) using interesting fonts, as it can't embed them or b) doing interested text things, like playing with the kerning, which won't be supported. It converts all the glyphs to paths. Can be quite a size increase on text-heavy documents, but it's still about as efficient as possible.
For some reason, this particular exporter, from the command line, works /far/ better than its "Save as..." option peers. In particular, saving straight to regular PS or PDF generally just yields a strangely-shaped blank page for me. =/
Any comments?
