Current PDF Support
Current PDF support
PDF Import
There is currently no support to automatically import PDF files in Inkscape.
PDF Export
pdf_output.inx
exports PDF files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat PDFs.
Requirements:
ps2pdf
(Installed separately)
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Current Postscript support
PS Import
ps_input.inx
imports Postscript files by using two external conversion scripts:
Requirements:
pstoedit
(Installed separately)skconvert
(Installed separately)
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
PS Export
Inkscape has built-in support to write Postscript files.
Strengths:
- Outputs nice readable Postscript
Weaknesses:
- Doesn't support fill patterns and clipping, see bugs 1208874 and 1170322
- Postscript doesn't support gradients or transparency and Inkscape doesn't emulate this, so gradients and transparency are just ignored.
Current Adobe Illustrator support
The files used by AdobeIllustrator were earlier postscript files but are now Pdf files.
AI Import
Requirements:
ill2svg.pl
requires perl
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
- Only works on the old Postscript-based Adobe format
- Code is sort of a hack
- No maintainer exists for this code
AI Export
ai_output.inx
exports Illustrator files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat AIs.
Requirements:
ps2ai.ps
(requires gs)
Strengths:
Weaknesses: