Urtzi Jauregi wrote: > 1. The info in [1] is wrong; to convert SVG to EPS, you have to disable > the "convert text to path" function in Inkscape or your text will be > exported as a picture, as explained in [2]. Do *not* use > the--export-text-to-path switch with Inkscape.
I don't know why this instruction is in the wiki. > 2. Automatic inclusion of LaTeX code via PSFrag fails, and I don't know > why. Inkscape converts SVG to EPS correctly; if you insert manually these > EPS files in your LyX document, PSFrag works perfectly. The problem is > when you insert the original SVG in LyX and expect it to handle the > conversion by itself (which is the whole point of doing all this!); in > this case, the final document shows the text anchors instead of the LaTeX > code whatever I do. I am still looking into this. > [UPDATE: I solved it! The trick is to declare the packages "graphicx" > and "color" in your preamble, *even if you don't use any color at all*. > Just declare them and wham! SVG previews + autoEPS + PSFrag. Took me a > while to solve this one!] This looks like a bug in LyX. You should not need to load any package in the preamble manually. Can you please file this at http://bugzilla.lyx.org, together with a minimal example .lyx file (with .svg file), and a screenshot of the correct and incorrect preview? > 3. A minor but annoying issue is that, while the PS documentis OK, when > using Veiw->PDF, the figures look very degraded (and no PSFrag, of > course). I am still looking into this. > [UPDATE: Still doesn't work. The only PDF export that works roughly OK is > ps2pdf, and the images still look worse on screen than on the PS. I > haven't tried to print them though, so maybe the printed version will look > better] No need to look further. psfrags does not work with pdflatex, only with latex, so you need to use dvi2ps or dvipdfm to produce your pdf. This is documented. > Hope all this is useful to somebody. Has anybody tried to do this? Did it > work? Why not add your information to the wiki (especially the bit about the text-to-path switch)? Georg
