svg and svg-extract – Handling SVG pictures in LaTeX documents

Copyright (C) Philip Ilten philten@cern.ch, 2012-2016
Copyright (C) Falk Hanisch hanisch.latex@outlook.com, 2017-2020

svg 2020/11/26 v2.02k

The current release is shiped via CTAN: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/svg

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Summary

The svg package provides an user‑interface for automated integration of SVG graphics created with Inkscape into LaTeX documents. Therefor the capabilities provided by Inkscape—and its command line tool—are used to export the text within a SVG graphic to a separate file, which is then rendered by LaTeX. The two commands \includesvg and \includeinkscape are provided as central user‑interface, which are very similar to the \includegraphics command of the graphicx package.

In addition, the package svg-extract extends the user‑interface of package svg in order to support the extraction of these graphics into independent files in different graphic formats, exactly as they are rendered within the LaTeX document. For the creation of these graphics in the well‑known formats PDF, EPS and PS, LaTeX and possibly conversion tools shipped with the most LaTeX distributions are used. If the graphics are required in other file formats, either ImageMagick or Ghostscript can be invoked.

Versions

v2.02k (2020/11/26)

• MiKTeX was updated, bug fix removed

v2.02j (2020/10/23)

• bug fix for automatic version detection of Inkscape with MiKTeX

v2.02i (2020/09/29)

• update for package scrlfile v3.32 and kernel (2020/10/01)

v2.02h (2020/06/23)

• hot fix for package transparent, see #28

v2.02g (2020/06/12)

• hot fix for including files with multiple dots in its names, see #27

v2.02f (2020/05/07)

• support for Inkscape 1.0 CLI

v2.02e (2020/01/13)

• fixes for new version of package scrbase

v2.02d (2019/10/22)

• fix bugs with current kernel (2019/10/01) regarding file name parsing, see #16
• use \filemoddate with XeLaTeX, see #12

v2.02c (2019/10/10)

• fix bugs with current kernel (2019/10/01) regarding file name parsing

v2.02b (2018/11/12)

• fix bug for package tikzscale which changes the definition of \includegraphics

v2.02a (2018/10/17)

• fix bug for package polyglossia which fakes babel poorly

v2.02 (2018/09/08)

• distortion of included and extracted graphics supported with options distort (or keepaspectratio) and extractdistort as well as rotation for extractions (extractangle)
• fixed errors with active double quotes from babel in path arguments
• multiple dots within file names possible
• package trimspaces required

v2.01 (2017/11/29)

• new option svgextension to change the format of files exported by Inkscape from svg to a custom one
• usage of \input{tex filename} within Inkscape graphics locates files in all declared searched folders

v2.00b (2017/05/23)

• improved warnings, if package svg is loaded by package svg-extract

v2.00a (2017/03/28)

• Bug fix for checking stock- and mediasizes

v2.00 (2017/03/27)

• New maintainer: Falk Hanisch
• Re-implementation from scratch
• functionality split in two packages svg and svg-extract
• package svg intended for including SVG files
• package svg-extract for extracting graphic files rendered with LaTeX
• svg-extract: enhanced support for ImageMagick
• svg-extract: support for Ghostscript added
• package subfig not required anymore
• support of subfigures stopped due to the huge number of packages which deal with this topic and the large variety of implementing this functionality; naming exported graphics after their consecutive numbering can't be ensured for all variants of subfigures, so it's neglected

v1.0 (2016/10/10)

• initial version by Philip Ilten