The flawless and easy way to publish PDF documents as web-ready
SVG files.
PDF2SVG is an efficient, stand-alone command-line application as
well as a software component for converting and publishing PDF files
as web-ready SVG graphics, the open-standard W3C
recommendation for high-end graphics on the web.
PDF2SVG enables high-quality PDF to SVG conversion that maintains
the original layout of the document and preserves hyperlinks, colors
and fonts. The resulting self-contained and compact SVG files can
be distributed, viewed, edited, stored, printed, and published onto
web sites and CD-ROMs. For quick and easy document navigation and
viewing, PDF2SVG can be configured to create page thumbnails as
well as an XML summary describing the document components such as
metadata, bookmarks, annotations, etc. Using XSLT or any other XML
processor, the user can quickly generate custom HTML and JavaScript
‘wrappers' that enable the user to browse multi-page documents
in any web browser.

Figure. PDF2SVG Command-Line Application.
Key Features of PDF2SVG:
- Fast, high-quality conversion from PDF (Portable Document Format)
to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) that maintains the original
document layout and preserves hyperlinks, colors and fonts.
- Font support: Type1, TrueType, Type3 and Type0/CID Fonts
- Color: ICC, DeviceN, Separation, RGB, CMYK, Indexed, etc.
- Support for encrypted PDF documents (40 and 128 bit RC4,
128 bit AES, Crypt filters).
- Support for all kinds of patterns, functions, and compression
schemes.
- Support for all annotation types.
- Support for soft, explicit, and color-key masks.
- Compression and SVG optimization: Converted documents can be
saved as SVGZ compressed files for fast web downloads.
- PDF2SVG allows for generation of stand-alone SVG files (i.e.
SVG files with embedded resources) as well as for SVG files with
shared resources.
- All text is converted to Unicode dramatically simplifying text
manipulation, editing, and searching. PDF2SVG makes every attempt
to map text to a Unicode public area, resulting in better repurposing
and text-searching capabilities of converted documents.
- Font embedding and font substitution option: The font embedding
option allows for reliable and accurate font reproduction. The
font substitution option produces smaller files but may not produce
100% accurate fonts on all systems.
- Option to extract document-level information that has no counterpart
in SVG (e.g. metadata, bookmarks, annotations, etc).
- Batch conversion: Using PDF2SVG you can easily convert single
files or whole PDF repositories.
- Generation of XML summary document describing important document
components such as document metadata, bookmarks, annotations,
etc. Using XSLT or any other XML processor, XML summary can be
used to wrap separate SVG documents into a composite document
for e-book style navigation and viewing or for further repurposing.
- Thumbnail generation option for fast navigation through multi-page
documents.
- Files with broken cross reference tables are automatically repaired.
- Configuration file for frequently used options.
- Fast rendering in popular SVG viewers.
- Support for all versions of the PDF Language Standard, including
PDF 1.7 and Acrobat 8 documents.
There are many benefits of converting your documents to SVG:
- SVG is a W3C (Web Standards
Consortium) standard format and is backed by a large number of
companies and non-profit organizations.
- Free SVG viewers are widely available on major platforms and
operating systems.
- Because SVG is based on XML, the document can be easily edited
in a text editor. SVG XML content can be linked to back-end business
processes such as databases, application servers, and other rich
sources of real-time information.
- There are a growing number of affordable and powerful SVG authoring
and editing solutions.
- Enhanced search capabilities. All text in SVG is stored in standard
XML syntax and Unicode encoding that makes searching operations
within a document or across large collections of documents a breeze.
Common Use Case Scenarios:
- Server-based, on-demand conversion of PDF documents to SVG.
- Batch processing of PDF collections. PDF2SVG is particularly
useful in assembling product catalogues and brochures.
- PDF content extraction and repurposing through SVG and XML.
PDF2SVG SDK:
PDF2SVG is also available to developers as a software component
for integration with third-party applications. PDF2SVG SDK is available
as a plain ‘C DLL’ and can be easily accessed from any
programming language (including C#, VB.NET, C/C++, Java, VB6, Perl,
Python, Ruby, Delphi, etc).
PDF2SVG is based on PDFNet SDK, making it extremely fast and efficient.
The conversion speed is suitable for interactive and dynamic applications.
Platforms Currently Supported:
- Windows Vista/2003/2000/XP/NT/98; Linux; Mac OSX.
For more information on PDF2SVG, please contact us via email: info@pdftron.com.
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