Svgtopam User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Svgtopam User Manual(1)
NAME
svgtopam - convert an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image to Netpbm
format
SYNOPSIS
svgtopam [-trace] [pnmfile]
Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use dou-
ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use
white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
its value.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
svgtopam reads an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image as input and
produces a PAM image as output.
svgtopam is so weak that it is probably not useful in general for con-
verting SVG images. It understands only <path> SVG elements which use
only the "M", "L", and "z" commands, and only those that use whole num-
ber arguments. This is sufficient for converting most of what comes
out of pamtosvg (not by coincidence - the program was developed for the
specific task of testing pamtosvg), but the main reason it is part of
Netpbm is to provide a base for someone to create a full SVG to Netpbm
converter.
SVG is a vector image format, which means it describes curves that com-
pose an image. By contrast, PNM is a raster format, which means it de-
scribes dots that compose an image. The main practical difference be-
tween the two types is that you can scale vector images better. A vec-
tor image also takes a lot less data to describe an image if the image
is composed of simple curves.
That means it is really an understatement to say that svgtopam is an
image format converter. It's really an image drawer, not unlike ppm-
draw.
For more information on SVG, see the Worldwide Web Consortium's SVG web
page ⟨http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/⟩ .
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), svgtopam recognizes the
following command line option:
-trace This option makes svgtopam issue messages describing the draw-
ing.
SEE ALSO
pamtosvg(1), pam(1),
HISTORY
svgtopam was added to Netpbm in Version 10.34 (May 2006).
Bryan Henderson created svgtopam to test pamtosvg.
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/svgtopam.html
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