Conversion Support Across Vector Formats

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Conversion Support Across Vector Formats

Vector formats vary in their support of different object elements. PostScript and PDF are very complete and feature-rich formats. The table below indicates how object elements are handled during conversion:

Format/Object   text lines curves images cropping

   WMF v v v 2    v     v 3
   EMF v v v    v     v
   MIF v v v    v     v 3
   CGM v 1 v v    v     v 3
   SVG v v v    v     v
   HPGL v v v 2    v     v 3
   EPS v v v    v     v
   DXF v v v    v 4    v 3
   PDF v v v    v     v

Notes

1. Font mapping in CGM is dependent on the source-application. PDF FLY offers a font mapping utility to map the fonts used in the PostScript file to CGM.

2. An algorithm is used to convert Beziers to an accurate polygon.

3. Only EMF, SVG and EPS support native cropping. Cropping for the other vector formats is intelligently calculated by PDF FLY as an option.

4. Instead of embedding raster images, the DXF format accesses them by reference. Upon conversion, PDF FLY saves referenced images as TIFF or JPEG for display in AutoCAD.