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Posted to batik-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by David Waite <dw...@jabber.com> on 2001/05/25 08:17:45 UTC
PS/EPS/PDF to SVG
I was wondering if anyone knows of an existing open-source project to
convert what I'll call the "Adobe Formats" to SVG. I'm trying to do
some work with Docbook-xml and Fop, but it looks like images either have
to be rasterized (yuck) or be in SVG.
If there isn't anything currently out there to do this, does anyone know
what amount of work it would be to do for someone like myself to write a
postscript->svg converter?
Perhaps for someone who is unfamiliar with Batik, Postscript and
SVG? ;-)
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-David Waite
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Re: PS/EPS/PDF to SVG
Posted by David Waite <dw...@jabber.com>.
I may have a Java 2D postscript renderer somewhere which I found online.. I
will look at this (it would be a heck of a lot easier than learning 900+
pages of postscript and 500+ pages of SVG).
Assuming the postscript rendered exists and the license plays nice, I might
be able to get something done soon :-)
-David Waite
P.S. I used the Together application to generate a WMF file, but it would not
convert correctly. I believe this was before Batik 1.0 was released, so I
will try again. If it still does not work, where should bug reports
(probably with the WMF) be sent?
Vincent Hardy wrote:
> David,
>
> One approach would be to write a PostScript renderer, i.e., someting
> that is able to turn a PostScript file into Java 2D API calls. Then,
> using the Batik SVGGraphics2D you could turn your PostScript into
> SVG. This is the approach for WMF -> SVG converter that Batik contains.
>
> Cheers.
> V.
>
> David Waite wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows of an existing open-source project to
> > convert what I'll call the "Adobe Formats" to SVG. I'm trying to do
> > some work with Docbook-xml and Fop, but it looks like images either have
> > to be rasterized (yuck) or be in SVG.
> >
> > If there isn't anything currently out there to do this, does anyone know
> > what amount of work it would be to do for someone like myself to write a
> > postscript->svg converter?
> > Perhaps for someone who is unfamiliar with Batik, Postscript and
> > SVG? ;-)
> >
> > [not on list, please cc me on replies]
> >
> > -David Waite
> >
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Re: PS/EPS/PDF to SVG
Posted by Vincent Hardy <vh...@eng.sun.com>.
David,
One approach would be to write a PostScript renderer, i.e., someting
that is able to turn a PostScript file into Java 2D API calls. Then,
using the Batik SVGGraphics2D you could turn your PostScript into
SVG. This is the approach for WMF -> SVG converter that Batik contains.
Cheers.
V.
David Waite wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of an existing open-source project to
> convert what I'll call the "Adobe Formats" to SVG. I'm trying to do
> some work with Docbook-xml and Fop, but it looks like images either have
> to be rasterized (yuck) or be in SVG.
>
> If there isn't anything currently out there to do this, does anyone know
> what amount of work it would be to do for someone like myself to write a
> postscript->svg converter?
> Perhaps for someone who is unfamiliar with Batik, Postscript and
> SVG? ;-)
>
> [not on list, please cc me on replies]
>
> -David Waite
>
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