Andrew Lewis wrote:
Hi all,
I would be grateful for feedback on this GSoC project idea which I would like to do. It should be reasonably orthogonal to the Inkscape core so it shouldn't interfere with refactoring. I haven't contributed to Inkscape before, but I did a GSoC project last year for BBC R&D (on Dirac motion estimation/mode decision).
Name: Andrew Lewis (1st year PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK)
Abstract:
Inkscape is an ideal tool for producing the types of diagrams present in academic papers, but various features could be added to make it ideal for tool-chains which use LaTeX [1] to typeset documents.
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I think your proposal is a great idea, which I have had need for before.
Have you considered an implementation which involves changing the 'pstricks' export filter to _not_ export text as paths?
You may also want to have a look at an extension I recently wrote: http://richard.henwood.googlepages.com/inkscapelatexextension
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