SVG images

[ConquestUser]

I've asked this question in here before but it's been a while and I wanted to see if anybody has come up with anything since. I'd like to take a .svg that I get from Amazon and create a pdf from it. The problem is everything either opens it with a mask over it and off-center or opens it at the wrong size. Anybody have any experience with Amazon files being .svg and converting to pdf.

Thanks,
Bruce

[magnussandstrom]

We could probably help out if you could provide a sample file.

[freddyp]

SVG does not have a page size like PDF has, so a tool that converts SVG to PDF will have to "invent" something. The most obvious choice would be to take the bounding box of all the elements, but the easiest choice is to leave it to the user to specify a size and/or to use a default. Which tool do you use and does it have options to influence how the page size is determined?

You can use PitStop Server to set the page boxes to the bounding box of the objects in the file.

[loicaigon]

How frequent is the need for such conversion? We could consider adding the opportunity to accept SVG as input for PitStop Server if we have a good demand for this.

So I can only say: "My Enfocus > PitStop > Feature Requests"

[magnussandstrom]

You can use Inkscape with Switch to convert SVG to PDF.

1. Install Inkscape 1.4.2 (https://inkscape.org/release/1.4.2/windows/)
2. Install the free Switch app Run Command
3. Use this command in the Command-property of the Run Command app:

C:\insert-your-path-to-inkscape-here\inkscape.exe "%%InputFilePath%%" --export-type=pdf --export-filename="[Job.NameProper].pdf"

[ConquestUser]

We use this daily on hundreds of images.
Thanks!