Convert SVG images including LaTeX commands into PDF images.
This repository contains a bash script only. This Bash script is intended for usage with a makefile, such as pdflatex-makefile, where the correct dependencies can be included without too much work.
The rationale is that, unfortunately, many scolarly publishers require the figures to be submitted in a final format, not allowing any further (despite automatic) post-processing.
$ ./svgpdflatex path/to/drawing.svg [header1.tex header2.tex ...]
The first argument is an svg file containing LaTeX commands.
All other (optional) arguments are tex files.
The latter will be included before processing the SVG file with LaTeX.
All intermediary files are handled inside a tamporary folder in /tmp/latex/, which on many Linux distributions is located in RAM.
The script outputs a single PDF file into the same folder where the first argument is located.
Beware the rough edges. This script is probably very fragile.
This script requires incscape to be installed with version at least 0.48 and relies on the method of including SVG files into LaTeX documents described here.