Wanted: tool to get vector graphics out of PDF
Carl Witthoft
Here's the scenario: I create a chart using R, which saves it as a PDF
file. (all other options are bitmapped formats). I want to be able to
get the vectorized version of the chart out of the PDF file so I can
edit or mod it in other applications. I can do this using OmniGraffle,
but was hoping to find a simpler, and cheaper, utility.
Just to help clarify: yes, I can get the graph from the PDF file into
things like PowerPoint, but only the bitmapped equivalent. Ditto when
using the Clipboard to copy the chart/graph directly from R's Quartz
window.
Any ideas?
thanks
Carl
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AES
Carl Witthoft <ca...@witthoft.com> wrote:
FileJuicer -- highly recommended.
But, "R" (whatever that is) has to put the chart into the PDF file
originally as a vector file, or you'll never get it out as such later
on. Just because R creates a PDF file and inserts an image into it
doesn't necessarily mean it's done so as a vector image. PDFs can hold
raster images also, and applications that create images can put these
images into PDF files as raster images, if that's what they're
programmed to do.
Frédérique & Hervé Sainct
> Here's the scenario: I create a chart using R, which saves it as a PDF
> file. (all other options are bitmapped formats). I want to be able to
> get the vectorized version of the chart out of the PDF file so I can
> edit or mod it in other applications.
Intaglio does exactly this, with a simplicity not unlike the original
MacDraw. That's my choice. Other than that you have all the heavyweight
packages, for instance Canvas does it too (but is more ambitious,
complex and costly). In general the vector drawing packages that can
imprt vectorial pdfs will be proud of it and announce it on their
website.
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Carl Witthoft
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:
Hi, R (take a look at http://cran.r-project.org/) is a math/stats
tool. It most certainly puts vector graphics into the PDF, since, as i
mentioned, I can get them back out using OmniGraffle on the file.
File Juicer does not succeed so far as I can tell -- it only looks for
bitmapped images. If there's some option or pref. in FJ that will tell
it to look for vector graphics, please let me know as I couldn't find it.
Carl Witthoft
h.sa...@laposte.net.invalid (Frédérique & Hervé Sainct) wrote:
> Carl Witthoft <ca...@witthoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's the scenario: I create a chart using R, which saves it as a PDF
> > file. (all other options are bitmapped formats). I want to be able to
> > get the vectorized version of the chart out of the PDF file so I can
> > edit or mod it in other applications.
>
> Intaglio does exactly this, with a simplicity not unlike the original
> MacDraw. That's my choice. Other than that you have all the heavyweight
> packages, for instance Canvas does it too (but is more ambitious,
> complex and costly). In general the vector drawing packages that can
> imprt vectorial pdfs will be proud of it and announce it on their
> website.
Thanks-- I'll go try Intaglio out.
AES
Carl Witthoft <ca...@witthoft.com> wrote:
According to the Sept 2007 documentation for FileJuicer:
File Juicer doesn't care what type file you drop onto it;
it searches the entire file byte by byte. If it finds a JPEG,
JP2, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP, WMF, EMF, PICT, TIFF, Flash,
Zip, HTML, WAV, MP3, AVI, MOV, MPG, WMV, MP4, AU,
AIFF or text file inside, it can save it to your desktop
or to another folder you choose.
The web page at
<http://echoone.com/filejuicer/formats/formats>
adds EPS to this list. And FJ certainly seems to have
extracted vector graphic PDF images for me.
But you'll have to check this out for yourself.