I would like to embellish the vector print output of some other program with Inkscape. I know that I can use a PDF printer driver, convert the PDF to SVG and edit this with Inkscape.
However, I would consider a SVG printer driver as the more straightforward aproach, i.e. converting directly WMF -> SVG instead of WMF -> PDF -> SVG.
There seem to be only a few Windows printer drivers which allow you to choose SVG as an output format
* PDF creator * clawPDF * SVGmaker
The later is dedicated to produce only SVG. I tried them all and got unsatisfying results:
* PDF creator produced a vector PDF which was very large an obviously cut into tiles (containing vector objects)
* clawPDF converted only a small portion of the entire vector drawing, limited to simple rectangles and text
* SVGmaker saved the complex part of the vector graphic as JPEG.
After all these years that SVG has been around, there seems to be nothing like 'the standard SVG printer driver'. Is this diagnosis correct? Do I have to go by WMF -> PDF -> SVG?
If it only were that easy. How can one expect to open any file (in this case coming from an accident simulation program) in Inkscape?
To my experience, converting the graphical print output of a program into PDF is in most cases the only way to get in hold of a file containing a vector graphic. I used to polish such files with Adobe Illustrator, which uses PostScript/PDF a its native format. Now I moved to Inkscape and would like to proceed alike, using SVG as the 'migration' format.
Using Inkscape with Other Programs SVG printer driver for Windows
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I would like to embellish the vector print output of some other program with Inkscape. I know that I can use a PDF printer driver, convert the PDF to SVG and edit this with Inkscape.
However, I would consider a SVG printer driver as the more straightforward aproach, i.e. converting directly WMF -> SVG instead of WMF -> PDF -> SVG.
There seem to be only a few Windows printer drivers which allow you to choose SVG as an output format
* PDF creator
* clawPDF
* SVGmaker
The later is dedicated to produce only SVG. I tried them all and got unsatisfying results:
* PDF creator produced a vector PDF which was very large an obviously cut into tiles (containing vector objects)
* clawPDF converted only a small portion of the entire vector drawing, limited to simple rectangles and text
* SVGmaker saved the complex part of the vector graphic as JPEG.
After all these years that SVG has been around, there seems to be nothing like 'the standard SVG printer driver'. Is this diagnosis correct? Do I have to go by WMF -> PDF -> SVG?
Have you tried open the file directly in Inkscape?
in the explore take the right mouse button and click open with …. Inkscape.
Or open an empty Inkscape document → file → open …. → store it as SVG
BmP
If it only were that easy. How can one expect to open any file (in this case coming from an accident simulation program) in Inkscape?
To my experience, converting the graphical print output of a program into PDF is in most cases the only way to get in hold of a file containing a vector graphic. I used to polish such files with Adobe Illustrator, which uses PostScript/PDF a its native format. Now I moved to Inkscape and would like to proceed alike, using SVG as the 'migration' format.