[Tex/LaTex] Inkscape unable to render latex text

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I am trying to render some Latex text in Inkscape on Windows, but I keep getting the error

Problem during opening C:\Program Files\pstoedit\drvmagick.dll:
Unable to find the specified module.

I have already installed pstoedit and the file drvmagick.dll is exactly in that directory (which I also added to the PATH).

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So basically you are seeing this error while trying to use laTeX to add a formula or text to your drawing. as explained in this page you go to Extensions->Render->LaTeX. but the same error happened on windows 10 and Inkscape 0.92:

Doing some search I found this post in Inkscape forums. There several possible soloutions have been proposed, but the one which worked for me was to delete the faulty file:

drvmagick.dll

and it now works just fine.

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Page 2 of CTAN/info/svg-inkscape/InkscapePDFLaTeX.pdf suggests the alternative use of the import package. Assuming all three files (.PDF, .PDF_TEX, and .SVG) are in the same folder as chapter1.tex, then all you need is

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx,import}

\begin{document}
\input{chapter1/chapter1}
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\chapter{test chapter}

\begin{figure}[h!]\centering
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As percusse wrote:

and I fixed via some Run as Administrator combo on Inkscape. running with administrative rights fixes the error.

The file is then exported to the extension folder, which you need rights to write to. That's where the error comes from.

Without changing any paths (on Win7), just type the full path into the "Output filename" box (possibly with an ending like .tikz), e.g.:

'C:\Users\Username\Documents\...\filename.tikz'

Though, as mentioned in the comments simply using save as TikZ code (*.tex) is probably best.

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