* Convert SVG to MetaPost
@ 2019-08-12 10:10 Jon Wong
2019-08-12 11:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
2019-08-12 11:30 ` luigi scarso
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From: Jon Wong @ 2019-08-12 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
Hi all,
Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF (via Inkscape).
Regards
Jon
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* Re: Convert SVG to MetaPost
2019-08-12 10:10 Convert SVG to MetaPost Jon Wong
@ 2019-08-12 11:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
2019-08-13 8:37 ` Hans Hagen
2019-08-12 11:30 ` luigi scarso
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2019-08-12 11:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
> On 12 Aug 2019, at 12:10, Jon Wong <jhannwong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
>
> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
>
> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF (via Inkscape).
SVG (and Inkscape) can do many graphical things that metapost can not do, so I think that would be a bad idea even if there was a tool that could do the conversion for some subset of SVG.
That said, SVG is just an XML format, so it should be possible to process simple SVG using ConTeXt’s built-in xml parser (with suitable processing environments, of course). How much work that would entail and whether it is
feasible depends on the actual SVG graphics.
Best wishes,
Taco
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* Re: Convert SVG to MetaPost
2019-08-12 11:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2019-08-13 8:37 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2019-08-13 8:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Taco Hoekwater
On 8/12/2019 1:15 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On 12 Aug 2019, at 12:10, Jon Wong <jhannwong@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
>>
>> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
>>
>> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF (via Inkscape).
>
> SVG (and Inkscape) can do many graphical things that metapost can not do, so I think that would be a bad idea even if there was a tool that could do the conversion for some subset of SVG.
>
> That said, SVG is just an XML format, so it should be possible to process simple SVG using ConTeXt’s built-in xml parser (with suitable processing environments, of course). How much work that would entail and whether it is
> feasible depends on the actual SVG graphics.
indeed, and i actually did a partial converter a while ago just to see
if it could be done but then decided to delay that till i really need it
(normally converting a svg to pdf is quite ok) .. i might pick it up on
some cold winternight
Hans
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* Re: Convert SVG to MetaPost
2019-08-12 10:10 Convert SVG to MetaPost Jon Wong
2019-08-12 11:15 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2019-08-12 11:30 ` luigi scarso
2019-08-12 11:33 ` Jon Wong
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From: luigi scarso @ 2019-08-12 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:11 PM Jon Wong <jhannwong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
>
> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape
> (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
>
> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files
> instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF
> (via Inkscape).
>
>
you can check pstoedit
http://www.calvina.de/pstoedit/pstoedit.htm
it can convert postscript to metapost.
So svg->pdf->ps->mp seems to be possible.
Of course, I am not sure if it fits in your workflow.
--
luigi
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* Re: Convert SVG to MetaPost
2019-08-12 11:30 ` luigi scarso
@ 2019-08-12 11:33 ` Jon Wong
2019-08-13 8:42 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Jon Wong @ 2019-08-12 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Taco!
Very enlightening!
I’ll just use both MetaPost and SVG for their intended purposes. (SVG will come from workflow involving GIMP/Inkscape; MetaPost for logical, rather than graphical, figures.)
Regards
Jon
> On Aug 12, 2019, at 7:30 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:11 PM Jon Wong <jhannwong@gmail.com <mailto:jhannwong@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to convert SVG to MetaPost?
>
> Currently, I have Bash scripts in my workflow to invoke Inkscape (converting SVG to PDF). I don’t like to allow shell access to TeX.
>
> If I can convert SVG to MetaPost, I will gladly Git-track MetaPost files instead of SVG files. That will do away with having to convert SVG into PDF (via Inkscape).
>
>
> you can check pstoedit
> http://www.calvina.de/pstoedit/pstoedit.htm <http://www.calvina.de/pstoedit/pstoedit.htm>
>
> it can convert postscript to metapost.
> So svg->pdf->ps->mp seems to be possible.
> Of course, I am not sure if it fits in your workflow.
>
> --
> luigi
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* Re: Convert SVG to MetaPost
2019-08-12 11:33 ` Jon Wong
@ 2019-08-13 8:42 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2019-08-13 8:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users, Jon Wong
On 8/12/2019 1:33 PM, Jon Wong wrote:
> Hi Taco!
>
> Very enlightening!
>
> I’ll just use both MetaPost and SVG for their intended purposes. (SVG
> will come from workflow involving GIMP/Inkscape; MetaPost for logical,
> rather than graphical, figures.)
if you have inkscape installed you can do
\externalfigure[test.svg][width=10cm]
and context will handle the conversion
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