Re: LUG: Scientific drawing software for Linux - Wed, 19 May 2010 01:01:35 -0400

There are a number of drawing programs that can interface with LaTeX.

With xfig (quite an old program), you can have text like $\int_0^\infty e^{-x}\,dx$ (including the dollar signs), and if you save the file in the correct format you get an EPS file which, in the resulting document, is overlaid with LaTeX text. Spacing is kind of funky since you have to guess how large the formatted LaTeX will be.

According to this, the SVG editor Inkscape can perform a similar trick:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LaTeX
But apparently there are extensions to Inkscape which lets it convert LaTeX code into vector objects that you may then edit in Inkscape:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ExtensionsRepository#TexText
On TexText's web page it lists the underlying utilities it uses to convert from LaTeX to PS or PDF to SVG.

Thanks,
-Brian Pike

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Daniel Underwood < daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted] > wrote:

Mainly want to be able to embed LaTeX math expressions in vector images.
I tried using mathbin.net and texify, but the images aren't high
quality vectors. Yep, basically just want to add math expressions to
vector images I can draw using a combination of OpenOffice-Draw and Dia.
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Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
Graduate Student - Operations Research
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