Archive for July, 2007

converting pdf to something more editable

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

pstoedit is your friend for that ;)

in debian like systems just type

apt-get install pstoedit

and off you go. there are tons of options of which the one or the other might help you converting your image to something more useful.

if you have rendered texts with letters like O you might want to use the -ssp option, which will try to prevent the o’s from being without the hole ;)

also, if spaces between letters are not as they should be, try to scale it to a larger resolution by using -xscale 10 and -yscale 10

so here’s one line i used to convert an A4 Sheet to svg:

pstoedit -xscale 10 -yscale 10 -ssp input.pdf output.svg

after that it is generally useful to open the file in scribus and edit it or make it fit it’s page ;)