Hey John - Happy New Year, back at you! There are numerous products on the market that can convert SVG->PDF with full vector fidelity. I wrote the first one back around 1997, though it's no longer available. Today, you can certainly use Adobe Illustrator on the commercial side or free solutions such as Inkscape to perform the operation. If what you really want is DXF, then you can go direct from SVG->DXF with Illustrator as well or some other products on the market.
Leonard On 1/1/08, John Delacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Leonard, and a happy New Year! > > Can you explain why nobody has yet produced software to convert SVG > to a PDF vector format? I understand it is not beyond the wit of man. > > As you say, it is simple enough to produce a rasterized PDF file from > SVG but what is the use of that! Can Adobe Illustrator produce > vector PDFs from SVG source? If not, at the price, why not? > > At the moment I am forced to use Satimage's Smile to achieve what I > want, which is to produce scalable drawings and movie frames as > vector PDF files that can also be converted, using other free > software, to DXF files for CNC machines etc. > > Smile is excellent, but in spite of long familiarity with > AppleScript, I hate to have to use it when there is an alternative, > and I prefer to use Perl and SVG, which means, apart from the > convenience of the languages, that I can serve custom-ordered > drawings from any old Unix server. If only the browsers would > provide acceptable support for animation I could also serve movies to > clients' specifications instead scripting the production of a > QuickTime movie using Smile. > > In my short acquaintance with SVG it seems to provide everything I > require, and production of the files, using my own home-made Perl > module is a breeze, but everything connected with SVG seems to be > half-baked and progressing very slowly. No doubt Adobe has no > complaints about that, but what do _you_ think about it? > > JD > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
