On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@???> 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
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
maillist : ntg-context@??? /
http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage :
http://www.pragma-ade.nl /
http://tex.aanhet.net
archive :
https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki :
http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________
