On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 13:29 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
The Xorg/Cairo folks do SVG presentations, although they use a different tool for it (I asked keithp about this last year, but the tool wasn't as polished as inkview at the time). Their interesting approach was to write the presentation in an XML format and use XSLT to transform it into SVG.
This sounds like the right way to do it. I wonder if the code they use to do this is available. There is a real need for powerful presentation software on gnu/linux.
I assume you're going LaTeX->PS->SVG? Try viewing the Postscript file and see if the text is presented there correctly. If so, then that suggests a PS->SVG transformation issue. Also, by 'losing' do you mean the text is gone completely or it just doesn't display (look in the SVG file in a text editor). If the text is there but just not getting displayed, it could be a font problem.
That was poorly worded by me - I meant that some greek letters get changed to their non-greek equivalent. For instance, beta is becoming b. It only happens to some letters though - I don't know why.
The beta is fine in the postscript, and fine in the skencil document, so it must be a problem with the skconvert program. I will file a bug with them.
A second issue is that for some reason, the letters fi get converted into a strange character which stops inkscape from importing, and inkview from showing. This shows up first when the file is converted to a skencil document, so I suppose that is another skencil bug.