Here the screenshots of the test file from the software (all in Win7x32): To help in the analysis of the current status I have created a test file (SVG-Test-File-2013a-Inkscape.svg) and done some tests with current software versions. By this I strongly wish and support Inkscape SVG file support from AOO. I use mainly Inkscape to edit (various software exports) and to create SVG files and think it is the 'state of the art' SVG software and available on all platforms under GPL. 2012: Native SVG support for Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (Incubating) 2011: In progress : native support of the SVG graphic format in Apache - Jan. The biggest step to this (after many years of no progress) seems done:ĭec. P2pdf 1.pdf 1.One of the most desired uses for OO for me is to import SVG Vector graphics and export them (together with text etc.) to PDF (for distribution and print). The image contents of the new pdf can be extracted to a folder (pdfout) : It could also be considerably larger in resolution depending on you inkscape image dimensions and output dpi (even if no new data is added). Also rendering all of the filters instead of using style references.Īfter re-rendering the image data in the pdf is usually png. The bitmap data in the pdf may have to be re-rendered, so that will include bitmap scaling to the chosen dpi instead of using a text transform. PDF is designed to give consistent results over different platforms. If you open the svg in a browser however you will find that some filters look quite different depending upon how the browser chooses to interpret them. This is simply a list of text which goes along side the orignal image - so takes up very little space. There will also be a list of transforms: scale / rotate etc along with style statement which links to any filters you have used. When you save an svg containing bitmap data Inkscape will contain a base64 encoded version of the image, this can be jpeg or png. ( Allowing for transform code etc )Īssuming we are talking about embedded not linked content. Whether the vector content is scaled to 10cm or 50cm then saved as svg or pdf, it should have roughly the same file size within a few kb. The vector content in your images is largely independent of dpi.

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