Latex in Inkscape
- August 19th, 2010
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Textext is an excellent Plugin to render Latex formulas in Inkscape. Features are editing of formulas after they have been rendered and loading of latex packages in advance. Latter is especially useful for customizing latex fonts. The installation is straight forward:
Installation
1. You need to install Pdflatex and Pdf2Svg at first: Direct Install or
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra pdf2svg
2. Download Textext Plugin for Inkscape from the Textext Side
Direct Download: textext-0.4.4.tar.gz
3. Unzip the file into the Inkscape Plugin folder
Inkscape 0.47: ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/
Inkscape > 0.47: ~/.inkscape/extensions/
4. After restarting Inkscape you find the Textex Plugin in the Extensions menu:



