I used my SuperGraphics framework as a one-stop solution (which is
open source -- but I don't think I have a public link on my site yet).
Since SuperGraphics is an abstraction class for a variety of vector
graphics formats, I have subclasses for SVG, PDF (using CoreGraphics,
via MBS plugins) & "Retained-mode" (which lets me manipulate the
contents of the document).
Basically, the process was: SVG files were loaded into a SuperGraphics
retained-mode object -- a DOM set of objects that represented the
structure of the SVG file. I "did stuff" to this object, including
drawing new shapes and converting all the colors from RGB to CMYK. I
then created a SuperGraphics CoreGraphics PDF object and .Drew the
retained mode version of the document to a file.
The OS X PDF engine is not the best for pre-press, though --
overprinting is not supported, for instance. I might create another
SuperGraphics subclass in the future that implements a different PDF
engine
John
On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Mark O'Neill wrote:
What did you use for outputting the PDFs as a matter of interest,
John?
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