Re: [Docutils-users] SVG as input/output

[Roberto A. <ra...@ne...>]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 07:47:23 Attila Tajti wrote:
> Are there anyone interested having SVG support? Because SVG is supported in
> any modern browser anyway (except IE of course) so could it could be added
> to the html output as external images. Perhaps other formats could support
> it, too?
> 
> I also tried rst2pdf that uses svglib to read SVG files and convert them to
> PDF, but it seems to be unable to parse even my simplest SVG files and
> seems unfinished.

svglib has its problems, specially with text in SVG files. In any case, you 
need to convert it to curves if you want others to see it like you do, since 
SVG doesn't embed the fonts!

OTOH, in SVN there is a module that uses inkscape to convert the SVG to PDF 
images, which are then embedded directly in your PDF, so that should work for 
almost any SVG file (even if it is very slow).

In fact, rst2pdf offers no less than 5 different ways to use SVG files, all of 
which work as well as their backend allows ;-)