Re: extracting vector graphics from a PDF

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to extract a vector graphics image from a PDF?
>
> The PDF was created with LaTeX, so I'm pretty sure the image was incorporated
> as vector graphics (PS or EPS).  I am aware of pdfimages from the
> poppler-utils package, but it only handles raster graphics.
>
> I'd prefer to do this from Lenny but also tried XP.  Under XP, I have Acrobat
> 9.3.1 and Illustrator 9.0.  Illustrator couldn't open the PDF, and I couldn't
> find a way to export the image from Acrobat.

I do not think this is exactly what you are looking for, but it did
worked for me:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pdf2svg.html

You'll get the whole page (including text fonts) as vectorial objects.

2cts
-- 
Mathieu