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