Re: PostScript to SVG

From	ken <ken@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: PostScript to SVG
Date	2020-07-06 15:26 +0100
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References	<80bb8877-f7f9-4c4e-b3ea-c454dab4aa40o@googlegroups.com> <1593895164.bystand@zzo38computer.org>

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In article <1593895164.bystand@zzo38computer.org>, 
news@zzo38computer.org.invalid says...
 
> I first produced PDF output, and then used a program called "pdf2svg",
> although better might be making a SVG output driver for Ghostscript. (I
> think there might be one but doesn't fully work, or something like that.

There *was* an SVG output device and at one time an SVG interpreter, 
both were declared defunct and removed from the source tree on the 9th 
March 2014.

Essentially the problem was that fonts are not well supported in SVG and 
many SVG consumers (at least back then) didn't really support fonts in 
SVG at all.

I expect the device still works so you could probably get the source for 
Ghostscript 9.10, take  the gdevsvg.c file from ghostpdl/devices/vector, 
and then modify the makefile of the current code to build and include 
the device.


> I don't know if it supports pdfmarks, or what device parameters it has.)

The pdfmark PostScript operator is only supported by the pdfwrite 
device.


				Ken

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