Nice work! One thing I'd ask you to look into --- work out how the Scribus folks get CMYK pdfs out of Inkscape, and include thusly, so that black is not defined as RGB, so that when separated to CMYK it will appear on all plates
William On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Vermeer Martin <martin.verm...@aalto.fi> wrote: > Dear developers, > > I have been looking at the possibility to use Inkscape as my integrated > vector graphics / diagrams editor for LyX, in the same way that I am now > using XFig. Xfig is a fine program, but getting really old. I expect that > within a few years it will fall off the map. Up till now it has been > maintained, sort of, but the user base is probably not large. > > Writing an external template for Inkscape turned out to be the work of one > afternoon, and getting it to run wasn't too hard either, copying and > pasting from the XFig template. See attached. I had much use from this doc: > > http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/svg-inkscape/InkscapePDFLaTeX.pdf > > Then you have to add file format and converter info, see attached. And a > test document. > > One thing I like about Inkscape vs. XFig is, that it automatically adapts > also the font _size_ to the surrounding text. You can freely rescale the > graphics, the figure text will come out correctly size after LaTeX > compilation. If you really want a text label in non-standard size, just add > \Large in front... > > Importing .fig figures into Inkscape works seamlessly... but dollar signs > around math disappear and have to be added by hand. Perhaps there is a > solution to this, but I haven't looked. > > I hope this can be included in a future LyX version. > > Best regards, > > Martin
