Convert .svg to .pdf

[Gerhard Gaußling]

Am Sonntag 08 Mai 2005 12:04 schrieb Matthias Fechner:
> Hello James,
>
> * James Wilkinson <ubuntu at westexe.demon.co.uk> [06-05-05 17:39]:
> > 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?
> no, it is not working, some lines are missing.
> Is it maybe easier, if i use .wmf instead of .svg?
> Is there a tool available, which can convert .wmf to .pdf?
$ apt-cache search wmf image
libwmf-bin - Windows metafile conversion tools
$ apt-cache show libwmf-bin
Description: Windows metafile conversion tools
 Windows metafile (WMF) is a picture format used by many Windows
 programs, e.g. Microsoft Word.  libwmf is a library for interpreting
 metafile images and either displaying them using X or converting them
 to standard formats such as PNG, JPEG, PS, EPS and SVG(Z)...
 .
 This package contains several frontends to libwmf.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

$ dpkg -L libwmf-bin|grep bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/libwmf-fontmap
/usr/bin/wmf2eps
/usr/bin/wmf2fig
/usr/bin/wmf2gd
/usr/bin/wmf2svg
/usr/bin/wmf2x
/usr/share/doc/libwmf-bin

wmf2eps and than  ps2pdf (eps is an _e_ncapsulated _P_ost_S_cript file).

sketch doesn't work at all for me (see traceback at the end of the 
message).

But inkscape did the trick. I tested it with a svg I found on 
http://www.openclipart.org/.
Maybe you need to install pstoedit first.
Than you can open the svg in inkscape (or sodipodi as well) and save it 
as ps file.
With ps2pdf or ps2pdf13 you can convert it to a vector PDF. I could zoom 
in to 400% without seeing any pixel. I assume, that it's a vector PDF 
and not an embedded bitmap image.

HTH

Gerhard Gaußling

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Here is the sketch traceback:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.8.20050430
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages sketch depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-0ubuntu3 GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries an
ii  libx11-6                  6.8.2-10       X Window System protocol 
client li
ii  libxext6                  6.8.2-10       X Window System 
miscellaneous exte
ii  python-imaging            1.1.4-3ubuntu2 Python Imaging Library
ii  python-tk                 2.4.1-0ubuntu2 Tkinter - Writing Tk 
applications
ii  python2.4                 2.4.1-0        An interactive high-level 
object-o
ii  tcl8.4                    8.4.7-1ubuntu1 Tcl (the Tool Command 
Language) v8
ii  tk8.4                     8.4.9-1        Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, 
v8.4 -
ii  xlibs                     6.8.2-10       X Window System client 
libraries m

everything above is from hoary amd64 except libc6 which is from breezy 
amd64.

$ sketch Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/sketch", 
line 34, in ?     Sketch.main.main()
  File "/usr/lib/sketch-0.6.15/Sketch/Base/main.py", line 148, in main
    run_script = options.run_script)
  File "/usr/lib/sketch-0.6.15/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 184, in 
__init__
    geometry = geometry)
  File "/usr/lib/sketch-0.6.15/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 103, in 
__init__
    self.init_tk(screen_name, geometry)
  File "/usr/lib/sketch-0.6.15/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 213, in init_tk
    geometry = geometry)
  File "/usr/lib/sketch-0.6.15/Sketch/UI/skapp.py", line 108, in init_tk
    className = self.tk_class_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1569, in __init__
    self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, 
interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
TypeError: function takes at most 4 arguments (8 given)