Other options include using the alternative Poppler based import, and how to handle fonts import. The main option here is choosing which page to import - as inkscape can only do single page documents, you will need to choose the page of the PDF to import. Here you can choose the options for the PDF import. In the inkscape menu, go to File > Open, and open up the PDF, and the following dialog will be shown: Importing / Opening an existing PDF into Inkscape is also quite simple. Once you click OK, your PDF will be exported and ready to use. Here you can edit options for the PDF output like setting the version of PDF export, whether you want to embed fonts (or convert text to paths or curves), and whether you want to rasterize filter effects like blurs. Once you type in your filename, and click Save, the following dialog will appear giving you some options for the PDF export:

In this box, choose Portable Document Format (*.pdf) from the dropdown in the bottom right corner above the Save button. You can split multi-page pdf files using pdftk, then using inkscape to convert pdf to svg file using command line, e.g inkscape -without-gui -fileinput. All you need to do is go to File > Save a Copy in the inkscape menus to bring up the Save a Copy dialog box. Once you have your document or picture created in Inkscape, to save it as a PDF it is pretty simple. This quick tip will cover the basics of saving your Inkscape SVG to a PDF, as well as using Inkscape’s PDF import functionality. Creating and editing PDFs in Inkscape is pretty simple.

Pdf to svg inkscape