Re: Include SVG pictures with ConTeXt

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

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?

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...


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Hraban
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