Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape as a LaTeX drawing editor

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:19 +0200, Davide Cavalca wrote:

Hello everybody,

I've been looking for some time for a good vector editor to make pictures to include in LaTeX documents. I eventually settled to TpX: http://tpx.sf.net which has the following interesting features

• can include LaTeX code in a document
• can save to a combined TeX/PS/PDF format which is very easy to include

in a LaTeX document On the other hand, it is "primitive" (to say the least) compared to inkscape, works only on win32, is prone to crash and AFAIK it's development is stalled. I'd like to use inkscape as a replacement.

Have you considered using the psfrag LaTeX package? It doesn't do quite what you want but might be good enough.

See the section on latex in http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Export.html#File-Export-Ot...

Tav