Emin Martinian <emin.martin...@gmail.com> writes:
> Briefly speaking, the current latex export of SVG files does not work out
> of the box and requires adding --shell-escape to the latex args and also
> installing inkscape. Even with those, I found the process brittle. If we
> are going to require inkscape for SVG handling, it seems cleaner to me to
> just use inkscape to convert SVG to PDF and then use \includegraphics
> instead of relying on something like \includesvg
> <https://github.com/bzg/org-mode/blob/b6dbf8881076191e1351d7cd15e26547a2531fea/lisp/ox-latex.el#L2879>.
> Also, if we go with the path of converting SVG to PDF, we can allow/support
> other conversion programs like rsvg-convert. Finally, if other backend
> exporters want to support SVG, converting SVG to PDF (or other formats) can
> support that in a similar way.
In other words, should we try to go around \usepackage{svg} and instead
convert svg->pdf ourselves, without forcing users to provide
--shell-escape? Even in LuaLaTeX, where --shell-escape is not neccesary,
svg may not render correctly without inkscape.
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