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Current PDF Support

2007-05-17T19:13:51Z

Completeja: Moved Gnulibplot subsection from AI section to PDF section

== 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 ===

<code>pdf_output.inx</code> exports PDF files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat PDFs.

Requirements:
* <code>ps2pdf</code> (Installed separately)

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

== Current Postscript support ==

=== PS Import ===

<code>ps_input.inx</code> imports Postscript files by using two external conversion scripts:

Requirements:
* <code>pstoedit</code> (Installed separately)
* <code>skconvert</code> (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 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:
* <code>ill2svg.pl</code> 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 ===

<code>ai_output.inx</code> exports Illustrator files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat AIs.

Requirements:
* <code>ps2ai.ps</code> (requires gs)

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Current PDF Support

2007-05-17T19:11:40Z

Completeja: pstoedit conversion from pdf to svg

== Current PDF support ==

=== PDF Import ===

There is currently no support to automatically import PDF files in Inkscape.

=== PDF Export ===

<code>pdf_output.inx</code> exports PDF files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat PDFs.

Requirements:
* <code>ps2pdf</code> (Installed separately)

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

== Current Postscript support ==

=== PS Import ===

<code>ps_input.inx</code> imports Postscript files by using two external conversion scripts:

Requirements:
* <code>pstoedit</code> (Installed separately)
* <code>skconvert</code> (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 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:
* <code>ill2svg.pl</code> 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 ===

<code>ai_output.inx</code> exports Illustrator files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat AIs.

Requirements:
* <code>ps2ai.ps</code> (requires gs)

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

=== 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.