Apache™ FOP Development: SVG Issues $Revision$

See also SVG User Documentation for more information.

Examples

These examples illustrate a number of issues relating to conversion to PDF:

SVG to PDF examples
svg file png file pdf result
images images.svg images.png images.pdf
svg linking link.svg link.png link.pdf
gradients and patterns paints.svg paints.png paints.pdf
various text and effects on text text.svg text.png text.pdf
transparent objects transparency.svg transparency.png transparency.pdf

As can be seen most of the specific issues are handled.

You will need Acrobat 5.0 to see transparency.
XSL:FO to PDF examples
fo file pdf result
embedding svg embedding.fo embedding.fo.pdf
Developer Notes

For most output formats in FOP the SVG is simply drawn into an image with Batik. For PDF there are a set of classes to handle drawing the GVT (Graphic Vector Toolkit) into PDF markup.

Classes

These are the relevant classes, found in the package org.apache.fop.svg :

  • PDFGraphics2D
    used for drawing onto a Graphics2D into an existing pdf document, used internally to draw the svg.
  • PDFDocumentGraphics2D
    used to create a pdf document and inherits from PDFGraphics2D to do the rest of the drawing. Used by the transcoder to create a standalone pdf document from an svg. Can be used independantly the same as any Graphics2D.
  • PDFTranscoder
    used by Batik to transcode an svg document into a standalone pdf, via PDFDocumentGraphics2D.
Ideas

Batik can convert ttf to svg font. This svg font could be converted into a pdf stroked font (type 3 font).