LaTeX input in Inkscape 0.46
July 21st 2008
I use Inkscape to do many of the drawings for my articles and talks, and have come across an irritating problem: I could not include LaTeX formulas on it. I have googled a bit about it, and the first match already led me to a bug report, where a comment by Kees Cook gives a fix that I quote below:
% cd /usr/share/inkscape/extensions
% curl -s 'http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12978623/eqtexsvg.py.patch' | sudo patch -p0
The bug affects (and the patch fixes) Inkscape 0.46 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Debian Lenny (that I know of).
Tags: Debian, en, FLOSS, howto, inkscape, LaTeX, linux, software, Ubuntu
2 Comments »
andres on 26 Nov 2010 at 0:42 am #
We are now in 0.47, does it work now? I also use it for reports (still haven’t published but looking forward to use inkscape for it)
isilanes on 26 Nov 2010 at 10:56 am #
Sorry, Andres, I can’t help. I haven’t used LaTeX+Inkscape for a long time (or my memory keeps getting worse as I age).
I have read:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LaTeX
but it really doesn’t help much.
Aparently the LaTeX+Inkscape integration comes with version 0.48, which is actually the one I have (I run Arch Linux). I can’t tell you much more.