[OS X TeX] SVG to LaTeX?

[Alain Schremmer]

Maarten Sneep wrote:

> I see two options here:
> 1) the svg file is encoded in UTF-16. Opening the file is a text  
> editor (TextWrangler, SubEthaEdit) will allow you to determine this.
> 2) The file includes some binary material.
>
> I guess it is #1, feff seems like a byte order mark for UTF-16, but I  
> may be mistaken.
>
> The solution is to treat the file as binary (encode in Base-64, and  
> extract in multiple stages). I think the code to do that was already  
> posted before in this thread.
>
> Of course, this assumes the error is in or near the filecontents  
> environment. 

This kind of investigation is not my forte. (Not even my piano.) However 
I think I have made progress:

1) When I open mypicture.svg with SubethaEdit, I can email the code (See 
below.) As mentioned before, not so with TeXShop.

2) Thus filled of hope, I pasted the SubethaEdit code in place of

    ... SVG coding for a picture ...

3) And now, when I try to typeset, I get something entirely different:

    LaTeX Warning: Writing file `./mypicture.svg'.


    (./TestForSVG.aux)
    (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.tex
    (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
    loading : Context Support Macros / Missing
    )
    loading : Context Support Macros / PDF
    )sh: line 1: svg2pdf: command not found


    LaTeX Warning: File `mypicture.pdf' not found on input line 294.


    Error: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex
    (file mypictu
    re.pdf): cannot find image file
     ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

4) And, indeed,

    - In addition to the files

        (my)picture.svg      The (renamed) original file
        mypicture.svg         The file LaTeX just created
        TestForSVG.log
        TestForSVG.idx
        TestForSVG.tex         TestForSVG.pdf      The output of the
        original TestForSVG with just the text "TESTING"

        there is now also the files

        TestForSVG.aux
        TestForSVG.pdfsync

    - mypicture.svg is not empty anymore:

        <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC
        "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"><!--Generated
        by Intaglio, www.PurgatoryDesign.com--><svg
        viewBox="0,0,576,734" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
        version="1.1"><path fill="#fff" stroke="#000" d="M201,196
        L422,196 L422,290 L201,290 Z"></path></svg><?xml version="1.0"
        standalone="no"?><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"><!--Generated
        by Intaglio, www.PurgatoryDesign.com--><svg
        viewBox="0,0,576,734" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
        version="1.1"><path fill="#fff" stroke="#000" d="M201,196
        L422,196 L422,290 L201,290 Z"></path></svg>

    - But Intaglio still thinks that the page is empty which would be a
    problem for later "graphic editing".

So, all of this seems to say that extraction has been completed but that 
conversion cannot be done so that,

> The second part of [my] problem is that the program  svg2pdf must be 
> installed and available for this to work at all, 

and I have no idea how to do that. I hope to be able to pick the brain 
of a friend next week.

Very grateful regards.
--schremmer



P.S. The TeXShop version of mypicture.svg starts with the two characters 
that survived in my first post. When I tried to paste then in front of 
the SubEthaEdit version, it said: Warning: You are trying to insert 
characters that cannot be handled by the file's current encoding. Do you 
want to cancel the change or promote to a richer encoding: Unicode? 
UTF8? I tried both in place of'
... SVG coding for a picture ...
but neither worked and both gave error messages that looked very much 
like the one above.


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