Extracting vector graphics from pdf with Inkscape [closed] Ask Question. Please edit the question. Add a comment| 2 Answers active oldest votes. Up vote 18 down vote accepted. In my humble opinion. You can split multi-page pdf files using pdftk, then using inkscape to convert pdf to svg file using command line, e.g.
Once you import it, our PDF page will show as an Inkscape one, where each image will be embedded (if you select that option) and each text line will be an editable box.
If you used a multiple Page PDF set the Page number to the page your. 1 Response to “GIMP – Importing Layered PDFs. 56 Responses to “Creating multi-page PDF files with GIMP and `convert`. Go to the original page and select Edit/Paste as/New layer. Inkscape Edit question. Output to multi-page PDF files requires external tools to be.
inkscape-pages 1.2 Pages support for Inkscape. Inkscape has now pages! Author: Cosmin Popescu [cosminadrianpopescu@gmail.com]-----------------------------------------------------------------------About:--------------------------This is a free program. You can use it, distribute it, modify it, do what ever you want with it. Any suggestions, reclamations, bug reports or any other ideas that you may have, please send themat cosminadrianpopescu@gmail.comThis extension is tested only on Ubuntu 11.04, but normally shouldwork on any platform on which Inkscape works. Being written in Python, there shouldn't be any problem with it. It enables multipage support for Inkscape. One of the very important features Corel Draw has and Inkscape didn't had yet. Features:-------------------------- - insert pages - insert page margins - use a master page - different master page for left and right pages (odd or even pages) - move object from one page to another - rearange pages - remove pages - export to PDF - navigate through pagesImportant:--------------------------If you want to also use layers with this extension, please create them usingthe 'Add new layer' option from the extension. Once created the layers, do notdrag them on out of the current page layer. This is the only restriction. Otherwise, you can use the layers in any way. Setting the shortcuts:--------------------------Edit the keys.xml file and set your shortcutsLinux and Mac Installation instructions:--------------------------In a command line, do the following: ------------------------------------------------------------ foo$ tar -xvf inkscape-pages-0.1.tar.gz foo$ cd inkscape-pages-0.1 foo$ sudo ./install [es|ro|en] ------------------------------------------------------------ For example, if you want to install it in Spanish, you have to dosudo ./install es. By default, if you not specify any language, the English version will be installed. Basically, what this does is copying all the .inx and .py files from the modules folder in the inkscapeextensions directory, then add in the keys/default.xml file the content of the./keys.xml file. Then, just restart the inkscape. You should have the Table sub-menu in the Extensions menu.If, for any reasons, the install will fail you can do all this manually. Copy the .py files from the modules folder and then the .inx files andthe pages_t.py file from the modules/[your language] folder inside the inkscape extensions directory. For example, if you want to install it in Spanish, copy the content of modules/es folder inside the inkscape extensions folder. then edit the keys/defaults.xml (on Ubuntu this folder is located in /usr/share/inkscape folder) and add the content of the keys.xml folder. That's it. Restart the inkscape and you're done.Windows Installation instructions:--------------------------Just run the executable. You will be required to input the Inkscapeinstallation folder. Usually this is C:Program FilesInkscape. Ifthis folder is in another location on your system, just input the correct path and click install. After, restart Inkscape and you're done. Don't worry about deleting or overwriting anything from Inkscape. Theinkscape-pages installer will only add files in the sharesextensionsfolder. When uninstalling, only those files which have been added willbe deleted. How to use it:--------------------------Of course, before using the pages feature, you have to create a multi page document. From the 'Extensions' menu, select Pages and then Create multi page document. A document with a single page will be created. If you previously had anything on the document, everything will be copied on the newly created page. You can observe the page number at any time in the status bar, at the current layer. This will always show the current page. I've set shortcuts for the most important functions: navigation and insertion of newpages. Since the PgUp and PgDn shortcuts are used by Inkscape, I set the navigationon the Ctrl + PgUP and Ctrl + PgDn. You can change these shortcuts and also you canadd your own. Just check the .inx files to see each function id and then insert a newline in the keys.xml file before installing it. Once the document is created, everything should be straight forward. You can easilynavigate through the pages using the shortcuts, you can add new pages, remove pages, add page margins, move objects from one page to another (using the 'Move selectedobjects' option) or reorder the pages (using the 'Move current page' option). Master pageThe master page is used to display elements in all pages. To edit it, just navigate to it(Extensions -> Pages -> Go to -> Master page). Everything you insert here, will be visible on all pages. If you want to insert page numbers, create a new text area usingthe text tool in which you have to type the text '#page#'. Of course you could also type anything next to the page text. Only the page text will be transformed according to eachpage, while everything else will be untouched. For example, if you type 'This is page #page#', on the first page this will appear as'This is page 1', on the second page this will appear as 'This is page 2' and so on. If you want different master pages for left and right pages (odd and even pages), while editing the master page, select the objects that you want to appear only on left pages or only on right pages and then click Extensions -> Pages -> Master Page ->Display selected objects in...While editing, if you want to see which objects appear on which pages, just use the filtering option (Extension -> Pages -> Master page -> Filter). PrintingOf course, if you use the Inkscape print option, only the current page will be printed. In order to print the full document, you will have to use the Export to PDF option and then to print the generated PDF document. By default, the exporting will generate a PDF file for each of the indicated pages your home folder in a subfolder called pages-export. Depending on the Windows version, the home folder couldbe under C:Users[Your user name] or in C:Documents and Settings[Your user name]. If you have pdfjam (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam/#download)or pdftk (http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/)installed you will also be able to create a single document. pdfjam is specific for Linux systems, while pdftk can be used for Linux, Windows and Mac. The default location will be /tmp/exported_pages.pdf. If you want to modify the location, just modify the tool command from the export parameters window. For Windows users: You can download pdftk from http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/install-pdftk/. Follow the instructions to install it and save the exe file in a PATH folder. Otherwise, modify the tool text box to indicate the folder where pdftk is saved. Then just modify the output path and you're done. For example, if you save the pdftk exe file in d:temppdftk and you want to save the resulted documentin d:pdfs, then the tool text box should look like this:d:temppdftkpdftk %i cat output d:pdfsoutput.pdfIf you don't have or don't want to use this tool, you could use the Adobe Acrobat Professionaland join all the files generated in the pages-export folder in a single file.
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I'd like to extract some pdf images from a paper for presentation purposes. In windows, Adobe Illustrator works just fine, but I now have to perform this task in a Debian box.
Two popular solutions I found online are using
The pdfimage does not meet my needs since I want vector graphics (pdf) rather than jpgs so I prefer to use Inkscape, but it does not work as expected. I hope I could use some selector tool to drag a box and select everything inside as I normally did with Illustrator, but none of the tools in Inkscape works.
If I use the 'select and transform objects' tool (the black arrow), the whole pdf page is selected while I only want a small portion; if I use the 'edit path by nodes' tool (the black triangle arrow with some nodes) I can only select a single object at a time. Drag and drop (even with the shift key pressed) does not work.
I'm wondering if there's a way to get around this, or is there a better tool in Debian to achieve the same? Thanks.
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In my humble opinion, I can suggest the way I use to get vector images from pdf
there is a tool called
pdftocairo, contained into poppler-utils
syntax:
pdftocairo is able to produce, in output, both raster and vector format, between these last, it is able to convert the content of single pdf page (if you have a multipage pdf doc, you first need to explode this 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 best output format for your needs may be the svg, so after converted the pdf page you can open this svg with any svg app (with inkscape or the good old sodipodi for instance), select the vector elements you want extract and save
RESUMING:
if you have a MULTIPAGE PDF
you FIRST split this multipage pdf into its single pages (create afolder for this single pages)
then use pdftocairo to convert any pdf page into svg
DingoDingo