But you can override this behavior by check the Rescale checkbox, which will rescale the object by current scale factor accordingly. Normally, WriteTeX trys to keep transform in old and new object. There are slightly difference in trading SVGs generated by PDF2SVG and PDFtoEDIT. You can use PDF2SVG or PDFtoEDIt to convert PDF to SVG. If you wish to use pdflatex, just change the command in the code. For Linux and other OS, pdf2svg or pstoedit usually can be installed from default package manager.īy default, WriteTeX use XeLatex to convert text to pdf.For Mac OSX user, binary version of both pstoedit and pdf2svg are provided.

For Windows user, binary version of pdf2svg is provided.Binaries for PDFTOSVG converterįor ease of the users, I also provide unofficial PDFTOSVG binaries for Windows and Mac OSX users. The lastest release can be downloaded from here. Make sure you have at least one LaTeX command and one PDFtoSVG converter are in your path.

Just drop writetex.py and writetex.inx to Inkscape extension folder, which is normally at $inkscapeFolder$/share/extensions. It helps me to evaluate whether this plugin is needed anymore. If you still think this plugin is useful, please star this project in the github repository. Theoretically, Inkscape supports import pdf text as path in the lastest version. You can obtain original TeX source from View Original TeX tab.

This extension uses Inkscape build-in extension system, does not require TK or PyGtk as textext. An Inkscape extension: Latex/Tex editor for Inkscape, inspired by textext.

Where to place inkscape extensions