What you are describing is CONVERSION of SVG to PDF - and that's basically the way to do it. As Andreas said, there are LOTS of tools out there these days that can do this for you already...no need to reinvent the wheel.
Kevin's script actually EMBEDS the SVG into the PDF - effectively having the SVG "take over" the document (hence the term "Alternate Presentation", used in the PDF file format). In Acrobat 6, there was a way to EMBED SVG into a PART of a PDF page (that was what my plugin did) - unfortunately, that functionality has been removed for Acrobat 7 :(. Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Rerun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:21 PM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] PHP, SVG, & PDF I've started, with some success, writing a php script that uses PDFLIB to write out SVG in a PDF. It seemed like a good idea, but then I got to thinking about polygons that have holes in them. It started to seem more complicated than it was worth. Maybe I'm wrong. Does anyone know how PDF's handle such types of polygons? Also, the act of writing out the path statement with PDFLIB seems a bit tedious, although I have a solution, it seems processor intensive for large outputs. It looks like this: PDF_moveto($p,$x,$y); PDF_lineto($p,$x,$y); PDF_lineto($p,$x,$y); PDF_lineto($p,$x,$y); PDF_closepath($p); PDF_fill_stroke($p); One coordinate at time. Am I missing something? Is there an easier way to do this? If not, has anyone used PDFLIB to embed the SVG into the PDF? It looks like PDFLIB only embeds objects such as images. Are there any other PHP solutions? After much searching, I have come up with nothing. I've seen Kevin Lindsey's pearl script, I don't know pearl, so I haven't been able to decipher that. Don't know if it would matter. Any ideas with regards to a PHP solution would be appreciated. Thanks. Sean ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
