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Converting PDF → SVG

Surprisingly complicated. Figma supports SVG → PDF but not the other way around. Sketch supports PDF → SVG with some bugs (often vector shape overlaps are incorrect.)

dawbarton/pdf2svg looks like an interesting project that could be compiled as WASM but it is itself poinsoned by GNU GPL license. Plus, it depends on a huge amount of (also GPL-licensed) code in the form of Poppler and Cairo.

For a quick fix on macOS, install the Poppler CLI tools:

$ brew install poppler
$ pdftocairo -svg hello.pdf hello.svg

Mozilla's pdf.js could be used. Example: examples/node/pdf2svg.js

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