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You may be at loss when you encounter one. As you know, SPL files are not very common, they are not widely used today. It is one of the several file types that Hewlett-Packard plotters supports. batik-rasterizer.jar -m application/pdf *.svgįinal step: join all resulting single page pd in one multipage pdf file pdftk *.pdf cat output out.SPL files are generally created by Windows NT and 2000 in the spool or plotter/printer's directory.

Re-convert ALL svg to pdf (this time the resulting pdfs will be kept vectorial, but without to be searchable) java -jar. Solution 2Ī possible way to produce non-searchable vector pdf from a searchable vector pdf isĬontained into poppler utils for f in *.pdf do pdftocairo -svg $f done This means that the above two steps can be avoided, and the desired result be achieved with a single command: gs -o somepdf-with-outlines.pdf -dNoOutputFonts -sDEVICE=pdfwrite somepdf.pdfĬaveats: I've tested this with a few input files using a self-compiled Ghostscript based on current Git sources. Which will cause the output devices pdfwrite, ps2write and eps2write 'to 'flatten' glyphs into 'basic' marking operations (rather than writing fonts to the output)'. But the quality should be better than your own attempt to use Ghostscript.)Īpparently, from version 9.15 (to be released during September/October 2014), Ghostscript will support a new command line parameter: -dNoOutputFonts

(And, without additional command line parameters, all images in the original PDF will likely also be converted according to Ghostscript builtin defaults, unless you add more command line parameters to do otherwise.

Note, that the resulting PDF will very likely be larger than the original one. The key here is the -dNOCACHE paramenter: gs -o somepdf.ps -dNOCACHE -sDEVICE=pswrite somepdf.pdfĬonvert the PS back to PDF (and, maybe delete the intermediate PS again): gs -o somepdf-with-outlines.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite somepdf.ps You need 2 steps:Ĭonvert the PDF to a PostScript file, which has all used fonts converted to outline shapes.

Convert nonsearchable pdf to searchable coolutils