External SVG to PDF rendering

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External SVG to PDF rendering

Post by hungerburg » Mon Oct 03, 2011 12:32 pm

One may export SVG with preserve geometry ticked, and then render SVG to PDF etc. Best results with apache FOP and below stylesheet:

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fop -xsl fo.xsl -xml Skizze.svg -pdf Skizze.pdf

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fop -xsl fo.xsl -xml Skizze.svg -png Skizze.png -dpi 150
Width and height are taken from the SVG.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="1.0">
	<xsl:output method="xml"/>
	<xsl:param name="width" select="/*/@width"/>
	<xsl:param name="height" select="/*/@height"/>
	<xsl:template match="/*">
		<fo:root font-family="Helvetica" font-size="12pt">
			<!-- Stammseite -->
			<fo:layout-master-set>
				<fo:simple-page-master master-name="skizze" page-width="{$width}" page-height="{$height}" margin="0mm">
					<fo:region-body margin="0mm"/>
				</fo:simple-page-master>
			</fo:layout-master-set>
			<!-- Skizze -->
			<fo:page-sequence master-reference="skizze">
				<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
					<fo:block-container top="0cm" left="0cm" position="fixed">
						<fo:block>
							<fo:instream-foreign-object xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
								<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
							</fo:instream-foreign-object>
						</fo:block>
					</fo:block-container>
				</fo:flow>
			</fo:page-sequence>
		</fo:root>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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