[OS X TeX] SVG to LaTeX?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.06.2006 um 01:41 schrieb Alain Schremmer:

> But, it seems to me, that does not significantly affect my query:  
> Is there a way automatically to convert PNG graphics into code that  
> could then be inserted into the LaTeX source which would then  
> result in a single source file that you would then be able both to  
> print and edit?

Why do you want to convert PNG? PdfTeX handles it. XeTeX, too. And it  
can be contained in DVI output and treated accordingly by dvips,  
dvipdfm, and others.

Why not create in Intaglio one graphic and then put stamps on it,  
stamps like GIF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and, maybe, JPEG2000. Then you save  
each of these variants à la testfile-<format>, and another series all  
with the same name "testfile" but different extensions. Now you can  
create two tex sources. One loads all the testfile-<format> files  
(giving you for example an option to try different caption packages  
in one file), the other works with \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{} to  
include only one or some formats, to learn this mechanism also. Maybe  
a second series in Unicode for XeTeX. Converting the sources and  
printing the output will be the final step -- although I think a  
preview should be OK and enough proof that this could also be printed  
on paper.


An "automatic conversion" of anything cannot happen, maybe except on  
Windows. In UNIX you have to invoke a programme, tell it the name of  
a file and at least the desired output format. There are some more  
determined ones that only do one thing in one direction, so can save  
some input. Good programmes can determine the input file's format.  
Such convertors for the command line are for example Apple's sips  
(jpeg | tiff | png | gif | jp2 | pict | bmp | qtif | psd | sgi | tga,  
preserving colour profiles), or convert from ImageMagick (as used for  
example in TeX4ht, more than twelve graphics formats -- I stopped  
counting them early). Netpbm, also from an i-Package for example,  
offers some conversions.


>
>> I don't know what SVG is ...
>
> Scalable Vector Graphics
>

That's a bit silly! What is inside the XML container? What format has  
the actual picture you or Intaglio put into?

--
Greetings

   Pete

"Computers are good at following instructions,
but not at reading your mind."
D. E. Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley 1984, 1986, 1996, p. 9


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