tikztosvg(1)

The tikztosvg(1) command renders TikZ diagrams to SVG, using xetex and pdf2svg.

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Usage

tikztosvg [OPTION]... INPUT_PATH

If INPUT_PATH is set to - the input will be read from stdin.

Options

-o, --output=OUTPUT_PATH: Write output to file OUTPUT_PATH. If set to - the output will be written to stdout. Defaults to the base name of the input file suffixed with the .svg extension. The file is resolved relative to the working directory.
-p, --package=+PACKAGE: Include \usepackage{PACKAGE} when rendering the diagram.
-q, --quiet: Silence application log messages and script warnings.
-h, --help: Print a help message.
-v, --version: Print version information.

Example

Let’s say you want to convert the file exemple.tikz to SVG:

\begin{tikzcd}
    G \arrow[r, "\varphi"] \arrow[d, "\psi"', two heads] & H \\
    \sfrac{G}{\ker \varphi} \arrow[ru, dotted]           &
\end{tikzcd}

You could achieve that by running the following command:

tikztosvg -p tikz-cd -p xfrac example.tikz

The results will be stored in the file example.svg:

Installation

The tikztosvg(1) command and it’s man page can be installed in Unix systems by running:

$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GarkGarcia/tikztosvg/master/install.sh | sudo sh

The executable is installed in $HOME/.local/bin/ and the man-page is installed in $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/.

Authors

TikzToSvg was written by Pablo Emílio Escobar Gavira.

pdf2svg was written by David Barton and Matthew Flaschen.

License

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License.

tjthink/tikztosvg