SVG to PDF converter

How it works

The SVG element is walked and re-expressed as PDF drawing operations — paths stay paths, fills stay fills — so the output is true vector and prints sharp at any size. The page is either exactly the drawing's size (one SVG unit becomes one PDF point) or A4 with the drawing contain-fitted inside your margin. The two libraries doing the work load on demand and run in your browser; the file never leaves your machine.

When to use it

Handing artwork to people and processes that speak PDF: print shops, slide decks, office suites, signature fields, anywhere "send it as a PDF" ends the conversation. It beats print-to-PDF from the browser because the page is sized to the drawing, not to A4-with-headers.

Common problems

• The text looks wrong. PDF text needs embedded fonts; without them, text maps to the standard Helvetica family. Convert display text to outlines with Text to Path first and the geometry travels instead of the font name.
• Filters and masks disappeared. Blur and friends have no clean PDF equivalent and are dropped or approximated. Flatten effects before exporting if they are load- bearing.
• Linked images came out blank. External URLs are not fetched. Inline the image data first.
• The print shop asked for CMYK. This PDF is RGB, like the SVG it came from. For colour-critical print runs, the conversion belongs in their prepress, with their profile.