On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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@ntg.nl / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
