Inkscape

PDF+LaTeX does not export proper font size in LaTeX file

Bug #892572 reported by Spencer Stirling on 2011-11-19

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Inkscape	New	Undecided	Johan Engelen

Bug Description

In the output option PDF+LaTeX (omit text and create separate LaTeX file) the font sizes are not output correctly. Same thing for EPS+LaTeX and PS+LaTeX. I have written patches to fix this issue (UPDATE: see the fixed patches in my next message below). These are patches onto the 0.48.2 version.

These patches also add EXTRA functionality: combined EPS+PDF+LaTeX export. Some people still need to support both regular LaTeX and PDFLaTeX simultaneously, hence they need *both* EPS and PDF files at the same time. The trick is to export both types of files and remove the filename extension on the \includegraphics line in the .pdf_tex file.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2011-11-19:

> the font sizes are not output correctly

Possibly related earlier reports:
Bug #595315 “need eps/ps/pdf+LaTeX font size warning”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/595315>
Bug #718638 “LaTeX font size support”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/718638>

tags:	added: exporting latex pdf
tags:	added: eps

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote on 2011-11-19:

@Johan - could you review the patch and verify whether it addresses the earlier reports about the font size?

Changed in inkscape:
assignee:	nobody → Johan Engelen (johanengelen)

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Spencer Stirling (stirling) wrote on 2011-12-02:

new fixed patch Edit (17.7 KiB, text/plain)

I apologize, but I just realized that the patches that I sent won't work (I was using a LaTex command "SetFigFontNFSS" to set the font size, but I forgot to add code to define it. I'm an idiot. I didn't notice because, by chance, that command was already defined in the document that I was testing on. GRRRR)

I also read the comments on bug #718638 and so I added the functionality that Johan requested there (an option to turn OFF font size support, and leave it off by default). I basically stole the code from the other patch supplied in that bug (however, that patch has a bug in it as well, so it won't compile - hence you really need this patch).

Attached is the new patch. The original trunk is called inkscape-0.48.2, and the new trunk is called inkscape-0.48.2-new. Again, this patch also adds some new functionality: combined PDF+EPS+LaTeX support for poor souls like me who are forced to support both latex and pdflatex simultaneously. This option is also "off" by default

Thank you

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baptiste (baptiste-pierrat) wrote on 2012-02-06:

Tested and working on the 0.48.x branch. Would be nive to have this feature on future releases.

Spencer Stirling (stirling) on 2012-03-10

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updated

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Johan Engelen (johanengelen) wrote on 2012-03-11:

After reading the new code: does it work when the filename contains more than one dot? E.g: "figure1.2.eps"

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Spencer Stirling (stirling) wrote on 2012-03-12:

Yes, that works because g_strrstr matches the last occurrence of the "."

The only problem occurs when somebody has a dot in their filename (e.g. figure1.2) but explicitly removes the ".pdf" extension for some reason. In that case the code will think that ".2" is the extension, and it will cut it off. I'm not certain how to fix this except using ".pdf" rather than "." as the search string, however this seems to introduce as much ugliness as it fixes. Any suggestions?

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Johan Engelen (johanengelen) wrote on 2012-03-18:

I think it would be good to explicitly search for the 3 'problem' extensions that need to be removed in the tex source: ".pdf", ".eps", and ".ps".
Thanks