I *could,* I'm just not convinced it would be worth the time and effort. SVG is fairly straightforward to generate as it's a flavor of XML. PDF is a rathole unto it's own - which is why several companies sell components for generating PDFs. I have a license for one, but I'm not sure it's a panacea, because I've always had issues with PDFs and margins - especially if we're spanning pages. I'm not saying I won't do it, but it's not terribly high on my list.

Curt [imhotep] is on the right track - or would be except for the fact that I'm using some advanced features of SVG that don't translate to DXF quite right. I mentioned a ways back in this thread that I tried converting some of the generated masks to DXF, and it was actually quite ugly.

Amusingly, the best conversion I got (admittedly, I only tried a handful) was from Visio 2003, but I still had to do significant editing.

I've actually *completely* rewritten the generation portion using some different technologies that I hope will actually create a "flatter" SVG - thereby making the translation easier. I completed that last week, and it displays great, but now the SVG->DXF export in Inkscape bombs, so I'm trying to figure out that issue. I'm also looking at outputting in XPS, which is sort of like PDF as far as generating consistent output.

If/when I get these changes completed, I'll post here.

David