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 netpbm documentation 28 June 2017 Svgtopam User Manual(1)
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