Manual: svgtopam

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NAME
       svgtopam - convert an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image to Netpbm format

SYNOPSIS
       svgtopam [-trace] [pnmfile]

       Minimum	unique	abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use double hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote
       options.	 You may use white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value.

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       svgtopam reads an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image as input and produces a PAM image as output.

       svgtopam is so weak that it is probably not useful in general for converting SVG images.	 It understands only  
       SVG  elements which use only the "M", "L", and "z" commands, and only those that use whole number arguments.  This is
       sufficient for converting most of what comes out of pamtosvg (not by coincidence - the program was developed for	 the
       specific task of testing pamtosvg), but the main reason it is part of Netpbm is to provide a base for someone to cre‐
       ate a full SVG to Netpbm converter.

       SVG  is	a  vector image format, which means it describes curves that compose an image.	By contrast, PNM is a raster
       format, which means it describes dots that compose an image.  The main practical difference between the two types  is
       that you can scale vector images better.	 A vector image also takes a lot less data to describe an image if the image
       is composed of simple curves.

       That  means  it	is really an understatement to say that svgtopam is an image format converter.	It's really an image
       drawer, not unlike ppmdraw.

       For more information on SVG, see the Worldwide Web Consortium's SVG web page .

OPTIONS
       In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably  -quiet,  see	  Common Options  ),
       svgtopam recognizes the following command line option:

       -trace This option makes svgtopam issue messages describing the drawing.

SEE ALSO
       pamtosvg(1), pam(1),

HISTORY
       svgtopam was added to Netpbm in Version 10.34 (May 2006).

       Bryan Henderson created svgtopam to test pamtosvg.

DOCUMENT SOURCE
       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

	      http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/svgtopam.html

netpbm documentation					28 June 2017				     Svgtopam User Manual(1)