[IPython-dev] High-quality pdf output (pdflatex) directly from notebooks

Jason Grout jason-sage at creativetrax.com
Mon Apr 30 07:22:57 EDT 2012


On 4/30/12 3:25 AM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> - inkscape: completely avoidable on OSX.  that's what I'm using to
> convert svg figures to pdf.  I just didn't know off-hand what
> command-line utility would do that on OSX; once someone tells me what
> the syntax should be to get svg ->  pdf on OSX, removing the inkscape
> dependency is a trivial 2-minute fix.

How about cairosvg?  I haven't tried it (and it may not be complete 
enough), but it looks like an interesting, python-based option:

http://cairosvg.org/

Thanks,

Jason




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