[texhax] PDF to EMF?

[narke]

Hi Ivan,

Understood.  Many thanks!


On 29 April 2011 16:55, Ivan Griffin <ivan at skynet.ie> wrote:
>
> Hi Steven,
>
> Unfortunately the quality of the EMF output varies.
>
> I have had to most success in saving SVG from InkScape (its native format),
> and then converting this to EMF with Visio.
>
> The EMF exports from InkScape suffered from a number of issues:
> * size (as I mentioned, I ended up with 10MB EMFs which were unwieldy)
> * font / text placement issues
>
> WMFs didn't fair much better.
>
> Before generating SVGs that Visio could work well with, I'm pretty sure I
> had to use File->Vacuum Defs in InkScape, and I may have saved from it as
> either "Plain SVG" or "Optimized SVG", in preference to "InkScape SVG"....
>
> I really should have documented this better at the time, but it was a
> once-off need.
>
> Nonetheless, with a little playing around with InkScape and Visio, I was
> able to figure out a flow that generated high quality EMFs effectively from
> TikZ source.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Ivan
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Steven Woody wrote:
>
>> Hi, Ivan
>>
>> Thanks.  If using Inkscape, instead of tizk, you can save your graph
>> directly in EMF, right? So why you bother to save it in SVG then open
>> it in Visio?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> narke
>>
>> On 29 April 2011 00:23, Ivan Griffin <ivan at skynet.ie> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Steven,
>>>
>>> I've done this (crudely) with a convoluted workflow.  Apologies in
>>> advance, as I can't remember the exact details.
>>>
>>> I used preview.sty to generate the TikZ picture to an appropriately sized
>>> PDF image.  Then I used InkScape to open the PDF and save it as SVG.
>>>
>>> I then opened the SVG in Visio 2010, and pasted it into MS Word as some
>>> form of metafile.  This for me was a key step, as the InkScape EMF/WMFs
>>> weren't perfect.
>>>
>>> Somewhere along the chain I ended up with ferociously large SVGs (10MB
>>> was
>>> not uncommon) and I can't remember now what trick/tool I used to simplify
>>> the SVG back down.
>>>
>>> But this route has worked well for me.
>>>
>>> I think I might occasionally have had to fix textboxes in the end
>>> metafiles, but in general they were okay.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Steven Woody wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've drawn a lot of tikz pictures (resulted in PDF formats after
>>>> running pdflatex on them).  Now, for some reason I have to use them on
>>>> a MS word document. I tried pdf2picture, some text looks ugly, maybe a
>>>> kind of font problem.  I also tried the Total PDF Converter, the
>>>> resulted quality is okay, but the program is not friendly to use in
>>>> Windows 7.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have any suggestion on these kind of tools?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
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