[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?
>
>Any hints?
>  
>
I picked up that file and it seems that there is some new annotation 
subtype svg. So, once we can reverse engineer its characteristics it's 
trivial for pdftex to do the same. The danger is in changing specs.

\def\SVGimage#1#2#3% name width height
   {\immediate \pdfobj {(#1)}%
    \edef\SVGname{\the\pdflastobj\space0 R }%
    \immediate \pdfobj stream attr {/Type /EmbeddedFile 
/Subtype/image#232Fsvg#232Bxml} file {#1}%
    \edef\SVGfile{\the\pdflastobj\space0 R }%
    \immediate \pdfobj {<</Type/Filespec /F \SVGname /EF <</F \SVGfile>> 
 >>}%
    \edef\SVGspec{\the\pdflastobj\space0 R }%
    \vbox to #3{\vss\hbox to #2{\pdfannot width #2 height #3
      {/F 4
       /H /P
       /Type /Annot
       /FT /Btn
       /Resources <</Names[\SVGname \SVGspec]>>
       /Subtype /SVG
       /T \SVGname
       /Ff 65536
       /TU \SVGname
       % /MK << /BG [1 1 1] /CA (Play) >>
       /StartResource \SVGname}\hss}}}

SVG image: \vskip1cm \SVGimage{ausmap.svg}{10cm}{10cm}

So te big question is: what are the formal specs (some mix between 
native SVG annots and buttons and resources; smells messy; i'd expect 
svg to be supported by the new multimedia features) -)

Hans

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