Better way than manually converting PDF to SVG images while using typst

[psads-git]

Description

Consider the code:

---
title: Page Layout
format:
  typst:
    papersize: a4
    margin:
      x: 1cm
      y: 1cm
    # columns: 2
---

# Introduction

![My image](excel01.pdf){width=80%}

When compiling, I get the error:

[typst]: Compiling Untitled-1.typ to Untitled-1.pdf...error: unknown image format
    ┌─ Untitled-1.typ:251:16
    │
251 │ #box(width: 80%,image("excel01.pdf"))
    │                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am aware that typst does not accept PDF images.

My question is: Is there another way to insert PDF images with quarto than manually convert them to, say, SVG? Thanks!

[mcanouil]

Quarto by itself does not have image conversion tools but you can find such tools on the Internet and use it either within a Quarto project as a pre-render script or within a code cell if the tool has a CLI.

[cderv]

We do convert SVG to PDF image when rsvg-convert is present for format: pdf. Though we do that because Pandoc does it and we needed compatibility with the feature.

We could think of something similar to do the work internally if for exampel pdf2svg utility is present. Though we don't want to handle every cases. Are PDF images that common ?

Anyhow, this would be a feature request to open to keep track of the idea for future versions.

[mcanouil]

We do convert SVG to PDF image when rsvg-convert is present for format: pdf. Though we do that because Pandoc does it and we needed compatibility with the feature.

Oh, is it highlighted in the documentation? I don't think I've seen any notes of this happening.

[mcanouil]

I made an issue to track this and switched this thread to Feature Request, follow-up/watch:

• Convert PDF images to SVG for Typst format (as done for PDF/LaTeX) #8185

[psads-git]

Thanks, @mcanouil and @cderv, for your answers.

In my case, I use a lot of pdf images in the documents I type with quarto.

I have pdf2svg tool available (I am using linux).