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From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Include SVG pictures with ConTeXt
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:21:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0807030421j63b0a4d4ye0497ff7371c146@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7BA51A7-3CA6-48AD-A978-A904A94EE6F1@fiee.net>

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> wrote:
> Am 2008-06-29 um 21:46 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> \usemodule[res-08] \setups[rl:manipulate]
>>
>> \setupexternalfigures[location=local,directory=.,conversion=pdf] %
>> lowres,prefix=lowres/]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \externalfigure[svg/ausmap.svg][frame=on]
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> it assumes inkscape being present
>
>
> Just wikified that and added a lot of links to SVG resources:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/SVG
>
> Since Adobe Reader supports SVG graphics natively - perhaps we could
> just include them in the PDF?
> Here's a sample script in Perl: http://www.kevlindev.com/utilities/index.htm
> and Python: http://jan.kollhof.net/projects/svg/svgpdf/
> I didn't look at them for I don't know the internals anyway, but I
> guess one could use this technique in Lua, too?

It's just a wrapper to include the image in a pdf file a object stream
(or whatever this is called) and creats links to the image but I was
only able to display it on windows, on Mac I saw only the text
"svg into pdf".

> An other way would be Cairo graphics library (also used by Mozilla) to
> convert SVG: http://cairographics.org
> There's even a Lua binding for Cairo: http://www.dynaset.org/dogusanh/download.html#cairopad
> But I don't really understand if Cairo is suitable to convert SVG to
> other than pixel graphics for screen rendering.
>
> Apache's Batik library claims to support SVG to PDF conversion:
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/
>
> So perhaps someone more qualified than me could make SVG integration
> for ConTeXt...

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-23 23:13 A \part command for ConTeXt TeXWorld
2008-06-24  0:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-06-24  7:15   ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-27  1:00 ` Include SVG pictures with ConTeXt TeXWorld
2008-06-29  2:27   ` TeXWorld
2008-06-29  7:44     ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-06-29 19:46       ` Hans Hagen
2008-06-30  1:22         ` TeXWorld
2008-06-30  7:29           ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-03 11:11         ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-07-03 11:21           ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-07-03 12:56           ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-03 13:22         ` Khaled Hosny

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