Sorry for thinking you might be interested in interim solutions. I was talking about Inkscape, which is multi-platform.

Netheril96 wrote:but it is restricted to Linux and I don't want switch to Linux every time I convert PDF to SVG.ĪFAICS you never told what OS/platform you are working on (and need a solution for) … Maybe developers can just incorporate the code of pdf2svg into Inkscape. There is in fact a tiny program pdf2svg ( ) based on Cairo and Poppler able to do this, but it is restricted to Linux and I don't want switch to Linux every time I convert PDF to SVG. Sadly what I want is exactly to convert text to paths based on embedded fonts of the PDF file. Such a command could be daisy-chained as external script in an Inkscape input extension. If you can install a recent development snapshot (0.48+devel), test opening the PDF file from within Inkscape as ' Adobe PDF via cairo-poppler (*.pdf)' (Note: experimental, work-in-progress, might not be included in the next stable release) - it will not convert text to paths based on embedded fonts of the PDF file AFAICT, but does use installed fonts if available: the imported text is created as paths (clones linked to glyph paths as 's in the section).Īlternatively write a script to use ghostscript for converting texts into outlines of PDF files, before opening the PDF file in Inkscape (a sample command line is here, a quick google search will return many other examples). Netheril96 wrote:I need Inkscape to automatically vectorize all text upon importing.This is not yet supported by the current stable release (but a known feature request).

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