[XeTeX] [Dev-luatex] A native support for SVG

[TeXWorld]

Hans Hagen a écrit :
>
> TeXWorld wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a ConTeXt (and LaTeX too) user. When I want to make a vector 
>> picture, I'm trying most of the time to use programs who can export 
>> PGF/TikZ or PStricks.
>> A lot of users like me don't "program" their vector pictures and use 
>> wysiwyg programs like Inkscape or Illustrator to generate PStricks ou 
>> PGF/TikZ code. Of course whatever program used, we can
>> find a SVG export. SVG is the most spread and the most used format to 
>> store vector pictures.
>>
>> I request a native support for SVG in XeTeX and in LuaTeX, I think it 
>> would be a great thing.
>> Of course when I want to include SVG pictures in my documents I can 
>> convert them to pdf before but the problem is that labels and texts 
>> won't be compiled : fonts will be wrong.
>>
>> What do you think about this ? Do you think it's something possible ?
>
> it would involve parsing of the svg code and that's real low on my 
> agenda (svg is not my favourite format with all this data in 
> attributes while actually it should in element and properly structured)
>
> Hans
Hello everybody, hello Hans,

I was reading this old message I posted about ten months ago.
I found scripts written in perl or python to include svg pictures in pdf 
but that's not really good (to me) and it doesn't work with any pdf 
viewer (it also requires a plugin installation in adobe acrobat ...). I 
was thinking about the mars project : 
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/

I thought that maybe the day when luatex and this new pdfxml format 
would be stable enough,  it could be conceivable to give luatex this 
ability to produce pdfxml files and maybe it would make easier the 
integration of svg images in this pdfxml without having to parse svg 
code. What do you think ? Pdfxml could be a good opportunity for luatex 
users ?