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Re: Converting from SVG for some printed output


From: Rik
Subject: Re: Converting from SVG for some printed output
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:14:53 -0700

On 10/30/2017 05:34 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our OpenGL printing work flow is currently mostly based on the conversion
> of EPS files generated by GL2PS into other formats through the use of
> Ghostscript (for raster formats and pdf) and pstoedit/fig2dev for other
> vector formats such as xfig, emf ... The only exceptions are
> pdflatex(standalone), which directly makes use of GL2PS native pdf
> format, and svg. See attached file for a summary.
>
> This conversion chain inherits all the limitations of the original EPS file:
>
> * Only 127 ascii characters are supported
>
> * Only the 14 base fonts can be used
>
> * Transparency is not handled at all
>
> On the other hand we have a pretty full-featured SVG output. I thus wrote
> a Qt based program that converts SVG from GL2PS (it is in no way a
> general purpose svg converter, see http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52193)
> to PDF, and I would like to know if there is interest in adding this
> program to Octave?
>
> My idea would be to replace the EPS->Ghostscript chain to
> SVG->PDF->Ghostscript for the following final formats: any Ghostscript
> raster format (jpg, png, pbm, ...) and pdf (go through Ghostscript to
> setup the surrounding page).  For "pdfwrite" (no surrounding page) we
> would simply use SVG->PDF conversion.
>

This seems like a good idea to me.  I like the fact that it might get rid
of the tesselation lines in the pdf output as well, and it would handle
transparency. 

--Rik




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