pdf2svg is a simple tool for converting PDF files to SVG format.

• pdf2svg Main Site

• Module Name: pdf2svg (see the modules page for more information)

Allocate an interactive session and run the program. Sample session (user input in bold):

[user@biowulf ~]$ sinteractive --gres=lscratch:10
salloc.exe: Pending job allocation 11085118
salloc.exe: job 11085118 queued and waiting for resources
salloc.exe: job 11085118 has been allocated resources
salloc.exe: Granted job allocation 11085118
salloc.exe: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc.exe: Nodes cn0848 are ready for job
srun: error: x11: no local DISPLAY defined, skipping
error: unable to open file /tmp/slurm-spank-x11.11085118.0
slurmstepd: error: x11: unable to read DISPLAY value

[user@cn0848 ~]$ cd /lscratch/$SLURM_JOB_ID

[user@cn0848 11085118]$ wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Test.pdf

[user@cn0848 11085118]$ module load pdf2svg
[+] Loading pdf2svg  0.2.3  on cn0848

[user@cn0848 11085118]$ pdf2svg Test.pdf test.svg

[user@cn0848 11085118]$ exit
exit
salloc.exe: Relinquishing job allocation 11085118

[user@biowulf ~]$

Create a batch input file (e.g. convert_pdfs.sh). For example:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
module load pdf2svg
for pdf if ~/pdfs; do pdf2svg $pdf ~/svgs`basename -s .pdf $pdf`.svg; done

Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.

sbatch convert_pdfs.sh