On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:59:23 -0500, I wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to extract a vector graphics image from a PDF?
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:06:33 +0100, mathieu.malate...@gmail.com replied: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pdf2svg.html > You'll get the whole page (including text fonts) as vectorial objects. Part of my original problem was that I have a PDF that, for some reason, won't open in Adobe Illustrator 9 (AI9). My goal was to isolate an EPS graphic from a page with text into AI9 and edit the image. Anyway, your suggestion worked. I converted file.pdf into file.svg, brought that up in iceweasel, and wrote it out as file.ps. Illustrator 9 could then open file.ps. The grouping of objects seemed pretty hacky, but I could deal with that. On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:10:58 +0100, Klistvud replied: > ... pdftops should do the job. It's in Lenny's repos somewhere and it > comes with pdftohtml and other command-line pdf utils, but the exact > package name escapes me at the moment ... That worked even better! Converting z.pdf to z.ps gave a file that worked in AI9 and also showed more reasonable grouping of objects. I already had pdftops. According to apt-file, I got it with poppler-utils and/or xpdf-utils. Thanks to both of you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1054_1783_126798036...@syrano.acb.uc.edu
