SVG to PDF on a shared linux server

Question

I have a website which uses SVG for an interactive client side thingamabob. I would like to provide the option to download a PDF of the finished output. I can pass the final

Answer 1

You can use Apache FOP's free Batik SVG toolkit which has a transcoder api to transform SVG to PDF.

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You will need to write a tiny bit of java. There are code examples here – note you will need to set the transcoder to org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTranscoder instead of Java.

You should be able to do this without installing anything on your machine – just drag the jars on there and run a script. I quote:

All other libraries needed by Batik are included in the distribution. As a consequence the Batik archive is quite big, but after you have downloaded it, you will not need anything else.