Feature request: SVG

[FelixPDF]

Feature request: (descending urgency)

• Import SVG to PDF

• Manipulate SVG elements

• Export SVG

Background:
Currently it is not easy to import a SVG into a PDF. However, SVGs work well in high-resolution target formats because of their lossless/vector properties. This format is becoming increasingly popular, especially in schools and universities.

Improvement Objective:
Import:
Users can add SVG's to a document content by drag-and-drop and via file/image import.

Manipulation:
Users can also select individual elements within the imported SVG and manipulate them in position and properties. Selected SVG elements can be copied and cut. Cut SVG elements can be pasted back into the PDF document as part of the SVG or as a standalone SVG. Users can move elements beyond the previous boundaries of the SVG, which automatically changes its defined size.

Export:
Selected SVG elements of a PDF document can be exported together as an SVG file.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello FelixPDF,

Thanks for your post and suggestion.
I will ask about supporting the first part (importing from SVG) - but that will likely require us to rasterize the input - so this will make the second and third points quite hard to achieve. What you are asking for is a full visual SVG editing tool.

Kind regards,
Stefan

[David.P]

Hello all,

I am also a fan of SVG.

Just as a tip, it is now possible to edit SVG nicely in PowerPoint (vectorially/losslessly).

It is also possible to select any element(s) in PowerPoint and export them as SVG again, via right-click.

The king of SVG editors is, of course, the awesome & free Inkscape.

Cheers & Hth
David.P

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello David.P,

Thanks for your feedback as well!
I did hear back from our devs but they advised me that for the time being we do not plan to offer importing/editign SVGs in the Editor.
As you suggested - Inkscape should be used to prepare the image, and it can then be converted to a different image format (e.g. a raster one) and imported into a PDF file.

Kind regards,
Stefan

[FelixPDF]

thank you for the feedback. Yeah those tools are familiar to me and I love to use them as well. Have now tried the approach of exporting/render SVG's via external programs for a while and would like to report back that this is very time consuming. A simple "import" (background raster) within the editor, seem to me would greatly improve the user experience.
I certainly understand the argument against SVG editing functionalities.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello FelixPDF,

Thanks for coming back to the topic.
For the time being nothing has really changed - and any type of support for SVG files directly in the Editor is not possible or planned.

Kind regards,
Stefan