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Open the PDF in Adobe Illustrator. Go to File > Save As (Shift + Ctrl + S). From the Format drop-down menu, select SVG (*.SVG). Save As. In the resulting dialog box: Under SVG Profiles, choose a profile (usually SVG 1.0 or SVG 1.1). Under Type, if you are not using web-safe fonts, select Convert to outline. (Warning: this greatly increases the ...
A number of tools exist which allow one to draw SVG type images. However, not all web browsers or image viewers can render and display an SVG image and for this reason the SVG image is normally converted from SVG to PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format. PNG is an open source bitmapped file format that all web browsers can display.
Most of these conventions are supported by active groups of map makers, and have been created and improved through long and serious discussions. The main intentions are: to display efficiently selected data; to create screen, web, print, creation & share friendly maps; to create a wiki style free of nationalism issues.
Select the page of the PDF you are interested in if the PDF is a multi-page document (Illustrator will only open one page at a time). Go to File > Save As (Shift + Ctrl + S). From the Format drop-down menu, select SVG (*.SVG). Save As. In the resulting dialog box: Under SVG Profiles, choose a profile (usually SVG 1.0 or SVG 1.1).
A GIS works with coordinate-related data: points, lines, polygons = shapes. When you define a point/line/shape, you can add data to them. It's like making an Excel-table or cascading style sheet.css stick to a drawing. Save the map you've made and it creates a set of different files: data-base-files.dbf, project.prj, shapes.shp and a few others.
Now here is some info on how to convert PDF image to SVG images. This page covers conversion using free tools. To convert using Adobe Illustrator go to the following two pages: Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Resources/PDF conversion to SVG/Adobe Illustrator; Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve/Archive/Jul 2008#Image:APISmap1.pdf
When a raster graphic is embedded in an SVG it is encoded into base64 data. That data is then assigned a MIME type in the <image> element. In the case of an embedded JPEG, the MIME type is "image/jpeg". Older versions of Inkscape (and possibly other editors) assigned the MIME type "image/jpg". While Inkscape and most web browsers will display ...
Look to the image on the right. SVG images stored at Wikipedia or on the Wikimedia Commons aren't actually what you see in your browser when viewing Wikipedia articles. MediaWiki converts the SVG image to a PNG image. The SVG format is the working format of the stored image so that people can more easily convert images for use in different ...