Convert .svg to .pdf

James Wilkinson ubuntu at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri May 6 16:39:48 UTC 2005


Matthias Fechner wrote:
> im searching for a tool or a set of tool, where i can convert
> svg-files to pdf-files.
> This conversion should be as vector graphic and not as bitmap.
> I want to resize the images later without loss in quality.
> 
> I tried inkscape to convert the svg file into a eps file, but if the
> picture is getting bigger, it is cropped.
> 
> Anyone knows here a programm, which can do it? (tools from commandline
> are the best, so i can automate it from a makefile).

Sketch (part of Ubuntu) includes sk2ps, which will also read svg.

sk2ps tiger.svg > tiger.ps
ps2pdf tiger.ps > tiger.pdf

Does this do what you want?

James.

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