TexText - A LaTeX/ XeLaTex/ LuaLaTex extension for Inkscape (releases 0.92, 0.91 and 0.48)
TexText is a Python plugin for the vector graphics editor Inkscape providing the possibility to add LaTeX generated SVG elements to your drawing.
Key features
- Multi-line editor, optionally with syntax highlighting
- Compatibility with TexText down to version 0.4.x
- Compilation of TeX code using PdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex
- Free scaling of the produced output either by dragging with the mouse in Inkscape or by setting a scale factor manually in the TexText GUI. Both approaches are compatible to each other. Scaling is kept after re-editing the code or can be adjusted later.
- Possibility of exact font size matching with Inkscape text
- TeX preamble file can be freely configured (additional packages, parskip, parindent, etc.)
- Colorization of the produced output via TeX commands or directly by Inkscape. Colorization is kept after re-editing the TeX code.
- It is possible to specify the alignment anchor of the produced output. By this it is possible to fix e.g. the top left corner of the produced svg output from compilation to compilation.
- TeXText uses either pdf2svg or pstoedit+ghostscript as converter for producing svg code from the generated pdf.
Download
See TexText release area on GitHub for the latest release.
Installation and usage
Detailed information about installation and usage can be found in the Wiki.
History
This repository continues the development of the plugin which took place at https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext until January 2018. Originally, TexText had been developed by Pauli Virtanen based on the plugin InkLaTeX written by Toru Araki.