[Tex/LaTex] \includesvg works, scaling does not

svg

in my document i got:

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\def\svgscale{0.5}
\includesvg[svgpath = pictures/]{somefile}
\caption{svg image}
\end{figure}

Which does indeed import the picture, but the pictures size does not change with values like 0.5 or 1.5.

with 0.5 i was expecting a reduction in widht and height of 50%. Is that wrong?

Best Answer

Youre right, this one works quite nice:

\includesvg[width = 200pt, svgpath = pictures/somepicture]

keeps the aspect ratio automatically.

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[Tex/LaTex] \includesvg does not detect SVG file

LuaTeX does not provide all primitives of pdfTeX. Many of the missing are implemented by package pdftexcmds via Lua code. Thus the following example makes \pdfstrcmp and \pdffilemoddate available for LuaTeX:

% test.tex
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ifluatex}
\ifluatex
  \usepackage{pdftexcmds}
  \makeatletter
  \let\pdfstrcmp\pdf@strcmp
  \let\pdffilemoddate\pdf@filemoddate
  \makeatother
\fi
\usepackage{svg}

\begin{document}
  \includesvg{my-svg-file}
\end{document}

Further remarks and adaptations for Windows:

Package svg needs the shell escape feature. If it is not enabled, then the error would be "./my-svg-file not found". The feature can be enabled at the command line, e.g.:
```
lualatex --shell-escape test
```
In MiKTeX the option is also called --enable-write18.
Also an installation of inkscape is needed. If inkscape is not in the PATH, then an absolute file name can be specified:
```
\setsvg{inkscape={"C:/Program Files/Inkscape/inkscape.exe"= -z -C}}
```
ImageMagick is needed for PNG output with convert in the PATH. Or the absolute file name can be tried, e.g.:
```
\setsvg{convert={"C:/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.8.0-Q16/convert.exe" -density 300}}
```
Package svg uses pdftops of xpdf for EPS output ; the program can be specified in keypdftops`:
```
\setsvg{pdftops={"C:/Program Files/.../pdftops.exe" -eps}}
```
The next problem for Windows, is that package svg uses the programs mv for moving a file and rm for deleting files. Either the package svg needs to be patched or make a feature request, because these programs are hard-coded in svg.sty and cannot be configured by options.

Alternatively Cygwin can be installed that should come with these programs.
Then hopefully all obstacles for Windows are successfully solved and the remark from the documentation is rendered false:

this package will not work on Windows
Disclaimer: I haven't tried this on Windows, because I am using Linux.

[Tex/LaTex] How not to extract text when using \includesvg

Use the inkscapelatex=false option.

Behind the scenes, includesvg uses Inkscape's --export-latex option, which causes inkscape to generate a PDF without texts, and a LaTex snippet containing all texts, to be included in the document. This allows to put formulae in the SVG, and have them rendered by LaTex on top of the graphics. inkscapelatex=false disables this, causing the texts (and fonts, if i remember correctly) to be included int the PDF export.

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