[pdftex] Re: PdfTeX and SVG graphics

[Brian Elmegaard]

Ben Crowell <pdftexcrowell04 at lightandmatter.com> writes:

> I have about 700 preexisting figures, used in a series of physics textbooks.
> I originally did them in Adobe Illustrator, and am now trying to get so I
> I can do all the editing of them in open-source software. I'm now at the
> point where my only reason for maintaining a Mac is to run Illustrator.

Isn't AI just another name for/kind of postscript? Can you get from
ai to ps?

If so, what about pstoedit? 
http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit

Could make you go ai->ps->metapost->svg


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