Yeah, the problem was ASV. As soon as I removed it, I could print SVG  
just fine. I had been using ASV for its support of SMIL, but Andreas  
directed me to WebKit, which seems to do SMIL just fine, so no more  
ASV. :-)
http://nightly.webkit.org/
Thanx for your response!
—Ken

> Re: Converting SVG to PDF
> Posted by: "John Delacour" j...@bd8.com   valchiusella
> Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:07 pm (PST)
>
> At 01:50 +0000 5/12/08, Kenneth Nellis wrote:
>
> >You can create PDF files of SVG from Safari?? Please, tell me the
> >trick. I just get a blank page except for the page headers, the same
> >as when I do Print Preview. FWIW, I'm running OS X 10.4, Safari
> >3.2.1 with the ASV 3.0 plugin. BTW, Firefox 3.0.4 works fine.
> >
> >Here's a sample file:
> ><http://homepage.mac.com/nellisks/stereo_svg/wireFrames/ 
> trunc_oct.svg>http://homepage.mac.com/nellisks/stereo_svg/ 
> wireFrames/trunc_oct.svg
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying -- I don't read all the postings  
> religiously.
>
> I had no trouble creating the vector pdf file from your link in  
> Safari using the Print/Save as PDF... option. Perhaps you need to  
> change your page set-up or something.
>
> As to the ASV plug-in, surely that has nothing to do with it.  
> Surely Safari is now self-sufficient for SVG?
>
> Robert Longson replied to my query that FireFox uses Cairo for the  
> conversion. How Safari does it I don't know. I have since installed  
> Cairo on the Mac, not without a lot of difficulty, and see that it  
> is not a complete solution, since attributes such as opacity are  
> not respected, but anything is better than a rasterized output.
>
> JD


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