DVISVGM

Looking promising, BUT

What about latex2html : i used that for glyph metrics, can that be dispensed with OR is that needed for the combining of snippets of SVG into plots (ransom note style)

which flavor to use

-s, --stdout                  write SVG output to stdout
-n, --no-fonts[=variant]      draw glyphs by using path elements [0]
--no-styles               don't use styles to reference fonts

default

no-styles

no-fonts

how to decide ?

Need to crank the handle on the workflow and observe the difficulty of fixing issues that arise with each flavor.

create some test svg

::

samples -rw-r–r– 1 blyth staff 7028 5 Apr 18:04 no-styles.svg -rw-r–r– 1 blyth staff 7465 5 Apr 18:04 no-fonts.svg -rw-r–r– 1 blyth staff 6797 5 Apr 18:05 default.svg -rw-r–r–@ 1 blyth staff 6842 5 Apr 18:29 illustrator.svg

one with pdflatex + illustrator

simon:samples blyth$ pdflatex slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/MacPorts 2012_4)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode

(./slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, cz
ech, slovak, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, basque, french, german-x-2009-06-1
9, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, german, ngerman, swissgerman, italian, polish, portugu
ese, spanish, catalan, galician, loaded.
(/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
No file slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+412
2.aux.
[1{/opt/local/var/db/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122.aux
) )</opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi6.pf
b></opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi8.pfb
></opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.pfb><
/opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb></o
pt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy6.pfb>
Output written on slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-2
11+211+4122.pdf (1 page, 38113 bytes).
Transcript written on slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_7
4_-211+211+4122.log.
simon:samples blyth$

Avoiding long paths that trip up applescript OR illustrator:

simon:samples blyth$ illustrator-pdf2svg-one /Users/blyth/heprez/dvisvgm/samples/slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122.pdf /tmp/illus.svg
/data/heprez/data/images/applescript/illustrator/pdf2svg_one.scpt: execution error: Adobe Illustrator got an error: Bad name for file. some object (-37)
simon:samples blyth$ cp /Users/blyth/heprez/dvisvgm/samples/slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122.pdf /tmp/i.pdf
simon:samples blyth$ illustrator-pdf2svg-one /tmp/i.pdf /tmp/o.svg
simon:samples blyth$ cp /tmp/o.svg illustrator.svg

three with latex + dvisvgm

simon:samples blyth$ dvisvgm slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122 -s > default.svg
processing page 1 [1]
  page size: 86.5158pt x 19.472pt (30.4068mm x 6.84361mm)
  page written to <stdout>
1 of 1 page converted in 0.429627 seconds

simon:samples blyth$ dvisvgm --no-styles slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122 -s > no-styles.svg
processing page 1 [1]
  page size: 86.5158pt x 19.472pt (30.4068mm x 6.84361mm)
  page written to <stdout>
1 of 1 page converted in 0.404618 seconds

simon:samples blyth$ dvisvgm --no-fonts slBR_5122_-211+74xoBR_5122_-211+-211+211+4122xPartialBR_74_-211+211+4122 -s > no-fonts.svg
processing page 1 [1]
  page size: 86.5158pt x 19.472pt (30.4068mm x 6.84361mm)
  page written to <stdout>
1 of 1 page converted in 0.351966 seconds

view with illustrator

Open in Illustrator gives loads of missing font warnings, and is represented by lots of empty boxes for default and –no-styles only –no-fonts looks OK but bounding box misses the text:

simon:samples blyth$ open -a Adobe\ Illustrator no-styles.svg  no-fonts.svg default.svg illustrator.svg

Only the native one arrives unscathed and on target.

view with squiggle/batik

Batik is referenced from http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net/FAQ so maybe that is used during development. All three dvisvgm SVG look OK with squiggle/batik:

simon:samples blyth$ batik-
simon:samples blyth$ batik-squiggle no-styles.svg  no-fonts.svg default.svg illustrator.svg
java -jar /usr/local/heprez/future/batik/batik-1.7/batik-squiggle.jar no-styles.svg no-fonts.svg default.svg illustrator.svg

The illustrator has the dinky font, and a little glyph overlap

view with safari

simon:samples blyth$ open -a Safari default.svg      # glyphs all there but on top of each other : illegible
simon:samples blyth$ open -a Safari no-styles.svg    # ok
simon:samples blyth$ open -a Safari no-fonts.svg     # ok
simon:samples blyth$ open -a Safari illustrator.svg  # ok

Scaling this

b2mc:images heprez$ pwd
/Users/heprez/data/data/images
b2mc:images heprez$ cp -r extras extras_dvisvgm_test

latex -output-directory=dvi tex/to.tex