Generating SVG in PDF

[Xmplar <info@xmplar.biz>]

Has anyone managed to produce PDFs with SVG files? I can only achieve this with fo:instream-foreign-object, even though it is apparently possible to use fo:external-graphic  to refer to an external SVG (see “SVG Essentials”, O’Reilly). Using fo:external-graphic (or even background-image in fo:block) just gives me a little box with red cross and the SVG is not generated.

I’m using XEP 4.21, Saxon 6.5.5.

The markup that works is:

<fo:block xmlns:ex="http://www.renderx.com/XSL/Extensions"
        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" span="all" background-color="#cc9933"
        border-top="1pt solid #ff0000" border-bottom="1pt solid #ff0000"
        border-left="0pt none #000000" border-right="0pt none #000000" margin-top="0mm"
        margin-bottom="3mm" margin-left="0mm" margin-right="0mm" padding-top="3mm"
        padding-bottom="3mm" padding-left="3mm" padding-right="3mm" background-repeat="no-repeat"
        background-image="url(images/Figure5-4.gif)" ex:background-content-width="170mm"
        background-position="50% 50%"><fo:instream-foreign-object><svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
             width="193.26px" height="163.26px" viewBox="0 0 193.26 163.26" enable-background="new 0 0 193.26 163.26" xml:space="preserve" transform="translate(0,100)">
<rect x="0.63" y="0.63" fill="#ffffff" fill-opacity="0.7" stroke="#000000" stroke-width="0.5" width="192" height="162"/>
</svg></fo:instream-foreign-object><fo:block ….

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Dave Gardiner