Hi forum,
My name is Roland and I am new to this forum and I am also new to incscape as well.
I usually do pixel graphics with large proportions (up to 25 gigapixles) but sometimes
I get a vector graphics pdf from a customer.
One of the main tasks I do is slicing the images and then resize the slices to large images.
When slicing pixel images I am fine using Imagemagick, but when I try to
slice a vector image with image magick the whole image must be converted
to pixels before sliceing and this is far to much data.

So I need a way to slice a vector graphic pdf file into about 50 - 60 slices.
And I need to do this automaticly.

I wonder if inkscape could do
1) convert pdf to svg if nessesary
2) slice a picture into 50 slices that still have all vector information to create large pixelgraphics without blur in the next step
3) do the whole job from command-line, batch-job or php script

Thanks for any help

Roland

Sorry for double posting, but things are even worse:
The pdf images I get are hybrid vector/pixel images at a given size.
So the sliced image must still be a vector/pixel compound image.
Does svg supports this?
Does inkscape can do this?

Greetings
Roland

Welcome aboard!

Inkscape can open pdf-s and save them as svg-s.
It uses ghostscript as far as I know, though you are in bad luck if the pdf uses gradient meshes (and various blending modes?).
If it does, look up this topic.

For slicing and batch exporting, check these:
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8711&p=31615&#p31589
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3832&p=17599&#p17599
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5832&p=24957&#p24642

I have no idea about command line, not even that if it's possible or not.
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16832&p=62271#p62271


Slicing may give you exported png-s. Those won't contain vector elements,
Svg can contain both vector and raster elements, but slicing an image to separate svg-s is another problem.