Current PDF Support
Current PDF support
PDF Import
There is currently no support to automatically import PDF files in Inkscape.
Use of Gnulibplot
A short way for converting files to import in Inkscape is to use gsview and the command "edit/convert to vector format" to convert any pdf to svg. Easy and fast to use. Incidentally, gsview invokes a command similar to "pstoedit -f plot-svg input-file output-file" and, after downloading and installing pstoedit, this command can be run on the command line without opening gsview.
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)
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Current Postscript support
PS Import
ps_input.inx imports Postscript files by using two external conversion scripts:
Requirements:
pstoedit(Installed separately)skconvert(Installed separately)
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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 transparency and Inkscape doesn't emulate this, so they are just ignored, that is you get the color you would get with opacity:1
Current Adobe Illustrator support
The files used by AdobeIllustrator were earlier postscript files but are now Pdf files.
AI Import
Requirements:
ill2svg.plrequires 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)
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