How To Convert KGW IX Manuscript PDF To SVG Text Files

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How to convert PDFs to SVG

Repository: nietzsche-convert-pdf2svg-usingAI-mac

Adobe Illustrator preparation

Install all fonts from "Spn_Fonts.zip".

PDF preparation

Go to folder that contains KGW IX manuscript pdfs and open a pdf file with
Adobe PDF. Under 'Organize Pages' choose split and save to a newly created
folder PDFDIR with the name scheme TITLE.*pdfpage[0-9]+.pdf.
In order to name pdf files according to their proper page number, use the following bash script:

$ ./renamePdfFiles.sh PDFDIR

Convert pdf files to svg using Adobe Illustrator and script

Put script "mySaveAsSVG.jsx" in AI script dir

$ cp mySaveAsSVG.jsx /Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\CC\ 2018/Presets.localized/de_DE/Skripten/

and execute it using AI: File >Skripts > mySaveAsSVG.

Or open Adobe Illustrator and start script:

$ ./convertPDFs2SVG.sh

and choose PDFDIR. Leave window focus on AI until finished.
All svg files are saved to 'switchdrive/myNietzsche/data_ai_export' (if it exists) or to 'Desktop/data_ai_export' (that will be created by the script).