[XeTeX] A native support for SVG

TeXWorld texworld at laposte.net
Mon Jun 30 03:38:58 CEST 2008


Will Robertson a écrit :
> On 30/06/2008, at 5:19 AM, TeXWorld wrote:
>
>> SVG is the most spread and the most used format to
>> store vector pictures.
>
> :)
> I think that claim would be found to be true for PostScript files, or 
> maybe PDF. SVG definitely hasn't been around long enough to be the 
> most widespread format yet!
You're right, it's a little excessive.
> Doesn't ConTeXt understand some reasonable subset of SVG? I think the 
> best way to get SVG in XeTeX would be to convert to PDF while 
> stripping out the text labels; save their position and get XeTeX to 
> paste them on top.
>
> Will
>   
That's a good idea but how can XeTeX convert SVG to PDF ? Will it use 
external programs such as Inkscape ?

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