Re: Convert to SVG

rumor has it that Michael wrote:

> On Tue, June 20, 2006 1:47 pm, Philip wrote:
> > But I would "print" the drawing to a .ps file and then open it in
> > Inkscape and save-as a svg.
> 
> I'm on Windows. Do I need to install a special printer driver to do
> this?

Oh.

I _rarely_ use MSWindows, and when I do I don't print.

I'm not remembering any way of getting a .ps file from MSWindows...

PDFCreator
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator

is a Windows printer driver that will "print" a PDF instead
of paper. It is using ghostscript so maybe there's a way to have it
output a .ps rather than a .pdf. I don't know.

Or maybe there's a simple way to access the ghostscript backend to
convert the .pdf into a .ps.

> > There's probably a command-line tool to do the inkscape step...
> 
> Cool... My goal is to get QCad drawings into Inkscape.

Ahh. Inkscape has quite a few import options, so you don't necessarily
have to get all the way to .svg, but a lot of them are raster formats.
I'm guessing that postscript will be the best path - I just don't know
enough about MSWindows to really help! Sorry.

--          Philip


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