[pdftex] support for svg

[Hans Hagen Outside]

wrobell wrote:

>Hello,
>
>PDF file with embedded SVG
>
>    http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/us_population/us_population.pdf
>
>can be viewed with Acrobat Reader 6.x.
>
>Is it possible to create such PDF file with pdftex?
>  
>
it's no problem to make such a file with pdftex (i did that some time ago) 

but ... it's not that useful: the svg is actually an alternative presentation of the page, so you cannot combine it with pdf; there are some weird fetaures in pdf (like the alternative slideshow mechanisms) which use pdf as a container format only. 

(for some obscure reason acrobat does not support svg like it does support for instance shockwave or smil; it would be nice if svg could be rendered as part of the page) 

Hans
 

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