Re: LyX and Inkscape
On 23.09.2011 02:18, Neal Becker wrote: Why wouldn't you just save as svg? If we just talk about an illustration, I would save it as pdf and then include the pdf. However, if the illustration contains anything in text, then if I saved it as a pdf I would have the text in the font that inkscape used. I believe that this looks ugly: Anything in the finished document should be in the same font. So if I use this pdf+latex format, the text will be rendered by LaTeX, at the positions specified by inkscape, but using the documents font. Also, you can then use LaTeX-Commands in your illustration, for example the math mode... If anyone is interested: something similar can be done with gnuplot, using the epslatex-terminal (then you just need to convert the eps-file to pdf), and also with dia. Martin
Re: LyX and Inkscape
On 23.09.2011 10:20, PhilipPirrip wrote: Martin, can you please tell me what exactly one should do in LyX with those two files, a .pdf and a .tex? The files are used almost like a normal image. Instead of inserting the image (usually inside a float), you insert a child document, select the .tex-file, and switch to input instead of include. And then you do what I was told before, so that LyX knows where the pdf-file can be found... (-- TEXINPUTS) Martin -- Dipl.Inform. Martin Hoßbach Research Assistant 'Cognitive Computing Medical Imaging' Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 | 64283 Darmstadt | Germany Tel +49 6151 155-585 | Fax +49 6151 155-480 martin.hossb...@igd.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de
Re: LyX and Inkscape
On 23.09.2011 02:18, Neal Becker wrote: Why wouldn't you just save as svg? If we just talk about an illustration, I would save it as pdf and then include the pdf. However, if the illustration contains anything in text, then if I saved it as a pdf I would have the text in the font that inkscape used. I believe that this looks ugly: Anything in the finished document should be in the same font. So if I use this pdf+latex format, the text will be rendered by LaTeX, at the positions specified by inkscape, but using the documents font. Also, you can then use LaTeX-Commands in your illustration, for example the math mode... If anyone is interested: something similar can be done with gnuplot, using the epslatex-terminal (then you just need to convert the eps-file to pdf), and also with dia. Martin
Re: LyX and Inkscape
On 23.09.2011 10:20, PhilipPirrip wrote: Martin, can you please tell me what exactly one should do in LyX with those two files, a .pdf and a .tex? The files are used almost like a normal image. Instead of inserting the image (usually inside a float), you insert a child document, select the .tex-file, and switch to input instead of include. And then you do what I was told before, so that LyX knows where the pdf-file can be found... (-- TEXINPUTS) Martin -- Dipl.Inform. Martin Hoßbach Research Assistant 'Cognitive Computing Medical Imaging' Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 | 64283 Darmstadt | Germany Tel +49 6151 155-585 | Fax +49 6151 155-480 martin.hossb...@igd.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de
Re: LyX and Inkscape
On 23.09.2011 02:18, Neal Becker wrote: Why wouldn't you just save as svg? If we just talk about an illustration, I would save it as pdf and then include the pdf. However, if the illustration contains anything in text, then if I saved it as a pdf I would have the text in the font that inkscape used. I believe that this looks ugly: Anything in the finished document should be in the same font. So if I use this pdf+latex format, the text will be rendered by LaTeX, at the positions specified by inkscape, but using the documents font. Also, you can then use LaTeX-Commands in your illustration, for example the math mode... If anyone is interested: something similar can be done with gnuplot, using the epslatex-terminal (then you just need to convert the eps-file to pdf), and also with dia. Martin
Re: LyX and Inkscape
On 23.09.2011 10:20, PhilipPirrip wrote: Martin, can you please tell me what exactly one should do in LyX with those two files, a .pdf and a .tex? The files are used almost like a "normal image". Instead of inserting the image (usually inside a float), you insert a child document, select the .tex-file, and switch to "input" instead of "include". And then you do what I was told before, so that LyX knows where the pdf-file can be found... (--> TEXINPUTS) Martin -- Dipl.Inform. Martin Hoßbach Research Assistant 'Cognitive Computing & Medical Imaging' Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 | 64283 Darmstadt | Germany Tel +49 6151 155-585 | Fax +49 6151 155-480 martin.hossb...@igd.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de
LyX and Inkscape
Hello does anyone of you use Inkscape and the pdf-latex-format to create images for your documents? BTW: Same problem with gnuplot and the eps-latex-terminal... I definitely want to use this format, because then I will have all text in drawings and diagrams in the font used by the main document. Inkscape creates two files: a pdf-file containing the drawing, and a tex-file which adds all text to the drawing and also loads the pdf-file. LyX seems to ignore the pdf file, since it is not referenced anywhere in the LyX-File. As a result, I get an error: foo.pdf cannot be found. Trying to use \graphicspath to tell latex where to look for the pdf doesn't help: I would have to add an absolute path to the pdf, which is pointless if you work on two machines, one linux, one windows... Using a relative path doesn't work, because LyX ignores the pdf-file and simply doesn't copy it to the temp-folder. Is there any way to tell LyX that the pdf-file exists and needs to be copied to the temp-folder, so latex can find it? Did I miss anything? Thanks Martin
Re: LyX and Inkscape
I will have to try this later today at home, since here at work I only have a windows pc, and the windows version of 2.0.1 seems not to be available yet... Thanks anyway. Martin On 22.09.2011 15:06, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Is there any way to tell LyX that the pdf-file exists and needs to be copied to the temp-folder, so latex can find it? Martin, I had a similar problem and have to thank the latest version LyX 2.0.1 for solving the issue. This problem occurs when your figure (both .pdf_tex and .pdf) in a directory (most commonly a subdirectory). To cut it short, let us assume that the two files are in a subdirectory ./figures (I would recommend to always use one such name for the directory for the reason to follow). Go to Tools-Preferences-Paths-TEXTINPUTS prefix: by default the current document directory is included (the dot .). Add the subdirectory path by appending ;./figures (the semicolon ; is to separate the two paths). I believe this should solve such issues in he future except in the case that your subdirectoery has a different name (e.g. ./img) in which case also append ;./img. Regards, Mukhtar -- Dipl.Inform. Martin Hoßbach Research Assistant 'Cognitive Computing Medical Imaging' Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 | 64283 Darmstadt | Germany Tel +49 6151 155-585 | Fax +49 6151 155-480 martin.hossb...@igd.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de
LyX and Inkscape
Hello does anyone of you use Inkscape and the pdf-latex-format to create images for your documents? BTW: Same problem with gnuplot and the eps-latex-terminal... I definitely want to use this format, because then I will have all text in drawings and diagrams in the font used by the main document. Inkscape creates two files: a pdf-file containing the drawing, and a tex-file which adds all text to the drawing and also loads the pdf-file. LyX seems to ignore the pdf file, since it is not referenced anywhere in the LyX-File. As a result, I get an error: foo.pdf cannot be found. Trying to use \graphicspath to tell latex where to look for the pdf doesn't help: I would have to add an absolute path to the pdf, which is pointless if you work on two machines, one linux, one windows... Using a relative path doesn't work, because LyX ignores the pdf-file and simply doesn't copy it to the temp-folder. Is there any way to tell LyX that the pdf-file exists and needs to be copied to the temp-folder, so latex can find it? Did I miss anything? Thanks Martin
Re: LyX and Inkscape
I will have to try this later today at home, since here at work I only have a windows pc, and the windows version of 2.0.1 seems not to be available yet... Thanks anyway. Martin On 22.09.2011 15:06, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Is there any way to tell LyX that the pdf-file exists and needs to be copied to the temp-folder, so latex can find it? Martin, I had a similar problem and have to thank the latest version LyX 2.0.1 for solving the issue. This problem occurs when your figure (both .pdf_tex and .pdf) in a directory (most commonly a subdirectory). To cut it short, let us assume that the two files are in a subdirectory ./figures (I would recommend to always use one such name for the directory for the reason to follow). Go to Tools-Preferences-Paths-TEXTINPUTS prefix: by default the current document directory is included (the dot .). Add the subdirectory path by appending ;./figures (the semicolon ; is to separate the two paths). I believe this should solve such issues in he future except in the case that your subdirectoery has a different name (e.g. ./img) in which case also append ;./img. Regards, Mukhtar -- Dipl.Inform. Martin Hoßbach Research Assistant 'Cognitive Computing Medical Imaging' Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 | 64283 Darmstadt | Germany Tel +49 6151 155-585 | Fax +49 6151 155-480 martin.hossb...@igd.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de
LyX and Inkscape
Hello does anyone of you use Inkscape and the pdf-latex-format to create images for your documents? BTW: Same problem with gnuplot and the eps-latex-terminal... I definitely want to use this format, because then I will have all text in drawings and diagrams in the font used by the main document. Inkscape creates two files: a pdf-file containing the drawing, and a tex-file which adds all text to the drawing and also loads the pdf-file. LyX seems to ignore the pdf file, since it is not referenced anywhere in the LyX-File. As a result, I get an error: "foo.pdf cannot be found". Trying to use \graphicspath to tell latex where to look for the pdf doesn't help: I would have to add an absolute path to the pdf, which is pointless if you work on two machines, one linux, one windows... Using a relative path doesn't work, because LyX ignores the pdf-file and simply doesn't copy it to the temp-folder. Is there any way to tell LyX that the pdf-file exists and needs to be copied to the temp-folder, so latex can find it? Did I miss anything? Thanks Martin
Re: LyX and Inkscape
I will have to try this later today at home, since here at work I only have a windows pc, and the windows version of 2.0.1 seems not to be available yet... Thanks anyway. Martin On 22.09.2011 15:06, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Is there any way to tell LyX that the pdf-file exists and needs to be copied to the temp-folder, so latex can find it? Martin, I had a similar problem and have to thank the latest version LyX 2.0.1 for solving the issue. This problem occurs when your figure (both .pdf_tex and .pdf) in a directory (most commonly a subdirectory). To cut it short, let us assume that the two files are in a subdirectory ./figures (I would recommend to always use one such name for the directory for the reason to follow). Go to Tools->Preferences->Paths->TEXTINPUTS prefix: by default the current document directory is included (the dot .). Add the subdirectory path by appending ;./figures (the semicolon ; is to separate the two paths). I believe this should solve such issues in he future except in the case that your subdirectoery has a different name (e.g. ./img) in which case also append ;./img. Regards, Mukhtar -- Dipl.Inform. Martin Hoßbach Research Assistant 'Cognitive Computing & Medical Imaging' Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 | 64283 Darmstadt | Germany Tel +49 6151 155-585 | Fax +49 6151 155-480 martin.hossb...@igd.fraunhofer.de | www.igd.fraunhofer.de
