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diff --git a/graphics/pdf2svg/pkg-descr b/graphics/pdf2svg/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 43a40073e..000000000 --- a/graphics/pdf2svg/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -Under Linux there aren't many freely available vector graphics editors and -as far as I know there are none that can edit EPS (encapsulated postscript) -and PDF (portable document format) files. I produce lots of these files in -my day-to-day work and I would like to be able to edit them. The best vector -graphics editor I have found so far is Inkscape but it only reads SVG -files... (Note: the upcoming v0.46 should be able to read PDFs!) - -To overcome this problem I have written a very small utility to convert PDF -files to SVG files using Poppler and Cairo. Version 0.2.1 is available here -(with modifications by Matthew Flaschen and Ed Grace). This appears to work -on any PDF document that Poppler can read (try them in XPDF or Evince since -they both use Poppler). - -So now it is possible to easily edit PDF documents with your favourite SVG -editor! One other alternative would be to use pstoedit but the commercial -SVG module costs (unsurprisingly!) and the free SVG module is not very good -at handling text... - -WWW: http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html |