[poppler] pdftocairo SVG, dropping multi-page support

[Pierre-Luc Samuel]

Hi,

A long time ago, cairo implemented the SVG 1.2 draft with support for 
multipage, so pdftocairo complies with that and submits an entire PDF 
document to be rendered into 1 SVG file.  However, no existing svg 
viewer can open these files because SVG 1.2 was never adopted by W3C and 
was actually dropped in 2005 in favor of development of SVG 2.0.  See 
https://www.w3.org/standards/techs/svg#obsolete

Inkscape has scapped their own plans of supporting multi-page SVG since 
it's not supported by any current SVG specification, and SVG 2.0 doesn't 
look like it will have multi-page either 
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage

So, I would be willing to prepare a patch to have SVG treated like other 
single-page image files, so that calling pdftocairo would generate many 
SVG 1.1 files.  Libcairo already has a 
cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version() method.

Would you be interested in such a patch?

Pierre-Luc
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