[ACCEPTED]-Extracting vector graphics from pdf with Inkscape-inkscape
In my humble opinion, I can suggest the 16 way I use to get vector images from pdf
there is 15 a tool called
pdftocairo, contained into poppler-utils
syntax:
pdftocairo [options] <PDF-file> [<output-file>]
pdftocairo 14 is able to produce, in output, both raster 13 and vector format, between these last, it 12 is able to convert the content of single pdf page (if you 11 have a multipage pdf doc, you first need to explode this 10 in its single pdf pages, with pdftk for instance), into:
- -ps : generate PostScript file
- -eps : generate Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
- -svg : generate a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file
the 9 best output format for your needs may be 8 the svg, so after converted the pdf page you 7 can open this svg with any svg app (with 6 inkscape or the good old sodipodi for instance), select 5 the vector elements you want extract and 4 save
RESUMING:
if you have a MULTIPAGE PDF
you FIRST split 3 this multipage pdf into its single pages 2 (create a folder for this single pages)
pdftk file.pdf burstthen 1 use pdftocairo to convert any pdf page into svg
for f in *.pdf; do pdftocairo -svg $f; done
You can split multi-page pdf files using 2 pdftk, then using inkscape to convert pdf 1 to svg file using command line, e.g
inkscape --without-gui --file=input.pdf --export-plain-svg=output.svg
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