Hello,
welcome everybody. I am new to Inkscape and this list. :)
Let me explain my situation. I am an electrical engineer and currently working towards my PhD degree, for that reason I am using LaTeX very often. Since the very first moment I had a problem to find a proper application to create vector-based graphics in a convenient way. The special problem is that the labels in the graphics should use the LaTeX fonts and macros that I use in my paper.
The only application that supports this (up to my knowledge) is XFig. The vector based graphics itself are being exported as Postscript or PDF. An additonal LaTeX file containing the labels is generated that includes the PS/PDF graphics file. At compile-time, LaTeX puts the text above the PS/PDF graphics, just at the position where it should be. - That is just a great for me (and a lot of others I know)!
The problem with XFig is the following: - Usability (argh!) - Portability (at work I have Windows, I did not find a proper Version of XFig, JFig that did the same job as it does on my Mac)
Form what I have seen from Inkscape it has a very good usability and is platform-independent, a very good place to start from. :)
Since I have seen others requesting this "layered LaTeX export feature" on lists and forums, but I did not see that it was coded, I hereby volunteer to implement this feature. I hope to get some help from this list to implement this feature into Inkscape.
I only had a 2 minutes look at the sources, but my plans are roughly like that: - descent the document tree, find text items, write them to a LaTeX file, remove them form the tree - pass the graphics-only document tree to the standard PS/PDF export routines
Could it work out that way?
Greetings,
Jan
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