I am looking into converting a large pdf file into svg (in order to create a web animation with java-script). I tried various methods which are available on my system:
- Conversion with a tool called
pdf2svg - Conversion with
pdftocairo -svg - Import with Inkscape
- Conversion with
pstoedit -f plot-svg -dt -ssp eqn.ps eqn.svgexplained here http://svgkit.sourceforge.net/SVGLaTeX.html
The first two options visually gives me the best results. Text seems to be converted to paths and the output looks like the original. However, it is difficult to work with the source of the resulting svg. Grouped objects in the original pdf are not grouped in the output. In contrast, the third method gives an svg which seems to contain the objects grouped, in just the way I need it, each with an ID. However, here the text is obviously imported as text and the font changes, such that the result is visually not appealing (this seems to be independent of the options I use on import).
Is there another way which gives me both, proper conversion of the text as well as grouped objects? If not, how could I can isolate and adapt the mechanism Inkscape is using for this conversion? Note that I am using Linux and that the original pdf file is obtained using xelatex.
