My goal is to convert pictures from .svg format into .emf, remaining the size, resolution, etc!!
The best solution that I found was using Visio, because of the quality after conversion and also if I need to resize the pictures, they don’t lose quality.
Please check the picture that I am sending on the link.
This picture shows the appearance when I open a .svg file in Visio 2010. As you can see, the image is very clear and the limits well defined!
(picture. 1)
I have already fit the drawing to the page using this tip
(picture. 2)
To get the emf format I save this file as .emf format:
(picture. 3)
The quality is good when it is opened with Microsoft Picture Manager, but the problem is detectable when this picture is inserted on the software that I want to use. The .emf file looks well, but when I convert from svg to .emf, Visio inserts an invisible frame around the image, if I open this emf file with paint it looks like it is inserted 1 pixel size for all borders!
(picture. 4)
As you can see here, the size image from Visio should looks like this (Inkscape) but it’s inserted a frame like this:
(picture. 5)
(picture. 6)
Does anybody know how to get a solution to this, using either Visio or other software?
Please do the download of the files.
(Link is no longer valid.)
I appreciate all feedback.
Thank you for preparing so much for this question and providing the ZIP. It was a very thorough job.
I don't have definitive knowledge here but my experience is this is very common EMF which - as I understand it always require a bounding box to be stored in the file.
The only option I can think of is using another format for example EPS - but it depends on what the final program you are using supports. Exporting to a bitmap format works better for some applications - though it may not be desirable for your needs.
One solution would be to use inkscape to convert from svg to emf.
In the Inkscape GUI: Menu File -> Save As -> Select emf as Target
Or in the command line mode: inkscape -z src.svg -M target.emf
Related
I'm trying to edit a vector graphics file from Freepik. The format is EPS and after installing both Inkscape and Ghostscript on Windows, I'm able to open the file with Inkscape. However, Inkscape introduces some weird artifacts (see lines and wrong colors in the picture below).
Side by side comparison, original vector (left) and SVG saved after opening the EPS file in Inkscape (right)
Is there a way to fix this issue?
It's a little difficult to tell, partly because this is a complex illustration and partly because the rendering is a little small. I'd suggest that the circular artefacts are caused by radial fills not being rendered completely.
This could simply be a rendering problem with Inkscape, or it could be that the radial fill has an Extend parameter which isn't being honoured. It could also be a problem calculating a clip.
It's not entirely obvious what you used to render the left hand image, is that Ghostscript ?
Generally I'd say this looks like an Inkscape bug and you should report it as such.
Edit
Reading through the Inkscape FAQ it seems that Inkscape uses SVG as its native format. That's going to mean that an awful lot of PostScript (and PDF) vector objects aren't going to be represented well. Shadings will either have to be rendered to an image or converted into a complex series of SVG primitives.
Following the link on 'How to open EPS files in Windows' from the FAQ suggests to me that EPS files are either rendered to an image or converted to PDF.
You could use Ghostscript to convert the EPS to PDF yourself, and then try loading the PDF into Inkscape to see if you get a better result. You can also open the PDF in, say, Acrobat to see if it looks OK there.
If the PDF looks fine in Acrobat, but not so good in Inkscape, then I'd say that's an Inkscape problem. If the PDF looks poor in Acrobat then that's a Ghostscript problem.
You can then report the problem as a bug to the appropriate site.
It seems that EPS has more capabilities than SVG and that's why some stuff looks weird when converted to PDF/SVG. Specifically, highlights in an EPS file are not properly rendered in an SVG file.
I checked the conversion from EPS to PDF via Ghostscript and the lines are already there, i.e. it's not an Inkscape bug.
Here's the original file to reproduce the problem:
https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/data-processing-factory-isometric-technology_8625296.htm
And here's what it looks like after converting it to PDF: The artifacts are not as noticeable on the PDF file, possibly because Ghostscript converts it with a higher DPI by default
My workaround to be able to edit the file (remove the background) was to:
open the EPS with Inkscape, ungroup the items
delete the background
export it as PNG
then use the PNG as a "mask" on GIMP to edit the JPG file that came together with the EPS.
I have an SVG graphic that I want to put some text on from my PHP variables. The graphic was generated in Illustrator and resizes in my web page to 100% width. Here is a representation of it:
How could this be done for the 8 text items? Does something special need to be done in Illustrator, like creating an anchor point for the text? How do I update the text item? I've done research but haven't been able to find a similar situation.
Thankful for any information that could help me narrow down my search.
Being someone who has never worked with files of .SVG file type before, this was a misunderstanding.
If you design a graphic in Adobe Illustrator, save it as an SVG and edit it with your favorite text editor, you will be able to see the SVG mark-up. It all makes sense now, and here you will be able to change the text at the code-level.
For my application, I saved the SVG as a PHP file and did an include on it, while changing the raw text to PHP variables in said file. This allowed me to pass my dynamic text as variables to the graphic.
I have a visio drawing where I need to write text inside the boxes.
When I save the visio drawing as a SVG the text which consists of multiple lines is overwritten on top of each other when previewed in Inkscape. Note the purple box.
Has anybody encountered this before, is there a solution?
EDIT: after trying multiple software I noticed that it is not Visio output to blame, but it is Inkscape input. Obviously it breaks the file when when it reads it.
Any solution?
I am making a deck of cards in Adobe Illustrator. Each card is saved as it's own .ai file so I can change it later if I want to. When using these images in an iOS app, I must convert everything to .png files. Then I must re-size those .png files to have retina and non retina versions. I'm hoping there is a way that will allow me to automatically take a folder of all my .ai files and give .pngs of 200px x 400px and 100 x 200px. Also I'd like the larger ones to automatically be named #2xNameOfOrginalFile.png and the others to be named nameOfOrginalFile.png. I see stuff about batch automated scripting that does stuff like that. I'm curious how simple that is to implement. Is what I'm suggesting possible? Is this an easy process?
Seems pretty easy to do. Someone has posted a script that will do what you want: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4915819
You'll have to change these lines,
pngExportOpts.horizontalScale = 250.0;
pngExportOpts.verticalScale = 250.0;
to calculated values. The scale is a percentage (see: the docs). You can use sourceDoc.width and sourceDoc.height to get the width and height of the original .ai file (in pixels? docs don't say).
You'll also want to modify the getNewName function.
I want to use mathematica to make plots for the book I'm writing. I want to make a plot in mathematica, save it as picture, then import it in quarkxpress, and finally export it as pdf.
My question is which format is best to use? When I go to 'save graphics as' in mathematica I have variety of formats to chose (.jpeg, .png, .jpeg2000, .gif, .bmp)
If Quark had imported PDF, that would have your best bet. But apparently it doesn't. It handles transparency and other such things.
So for vector graphics use either EPS or, on Windows try WMF. If you do use WMF, beware of issues around WMF with BarChart and friends. See the workaround in the edit to this answer.
For raster graphics eg with textures, use PNG. This is the lightest weight of the raster type graphic format that I am aware of.