Re: [xmlroff] PD: SVG

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Miko=C5=82aj Habdank-Wojew=C3=B3dzki <me...@wp...> writes:
> Dnia 3-07-2006 o godz. 10:56 Tony Graham <Ton...@Su...> napi=
sa=C5=82(a):
>> Miko=C5=82aj Habdank-Wojew=C3=B3dzki <me...@wp...> writes:
>> ...
>> > 2) I want to create svg file.
>>=20
>> The good news is that enabling SVG output was about seven lines of=
 code.
>>=20
>> The bad news is that the output is unreadable in FireFox 1.5.
> I do not care - i want only to create pdf. For HTML pages i am writ=
ing scripts to create html with svg+png (svg isn't avaible for everyb=
ody).

I'm confused about what you want.  I thought you were asking for SVG =
output,
but now you say you want PDF?

>> The output from my test (and, it would work, the first public view=
ing for
>> the xmlroff manpage by Oliver Kiddle) is attached to
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=3Ddetail&aid=3D15161=
90&group_id=3D73148&atid=3D536897
>>=20
>> xmllint says it's wellformed, but that's not much consolation.
>>=20
>> The other bad news that isn't news is that text in the Cairo outpu=
t (in the
>> formats that I can view) is still too large.
> Have you any examples? Can you attach them? My docbook is very simp=
le.  SVG pistures which i try to include is mouse.svg (three circles =
and nothing more).
>
> With svg i can now create pdf, but pictures are coverted to bitmaps=
. I need vectors and glyphs. Tooday i'll try new cairo. It can be fun=
.

The bitmaps were a "feature" of Cairo before Cairo 1.2.

> The biggest problems i have with mathml. I can not even convert the=
m to bitmaps. I have found this project:
> http://www.grigoriev.ru/svgmath/
> but it doesn't work.
> Other is
> http://ms800.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~stevens/pMML2SVG/
> but it is in French and author didn't response to any of my mails.

There's also http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmltosvg/, which also ap=
pears
dead.

> So for now i have docbook with svg images converted to bitmaps (75d=
pi) and no equations. Maybe it is possible to create hi-res bitmaps? =
300DPI will be enought.

I can't see a way to pass SVG images directly to a Cairo SVG surface =
so they
appear as SVG in the SVG output.

Regards,


Tony.