frankhoff / textext

Re-editable LaTeX graphics for Inkscape

TexText - A TeX extension for Inkscape

TexText is a Python plugin for the vector graphics editor Inkscape providing the possibility to add and re-edit LaTeX generated SVG elements to your drawing.

Key features

• Windows/ Linux/ MacOS support
• LaTeX generated SVG elements can be re-edited later
• Multi-line editor with syntax highlighting (Read more...)
• Compilation with PdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex (Read more...)
• Interoperable scaling in TexText and Inkscape (Read more...)
• Font size match with Inkscape text (Read more...)
• Customizable TeX preamble for e.g. additional packages, parskip, parindent, etc. (Read more...)
• Colorization via TeX commands/ Inkscape is kept after re-editing (Read more...)
• Alignment anchor of the produced output (Read more...)
• Preview images (Read more...)
• Compatibility with TexText down to version 0.4.x

Download

Download of the most recent version (and older ones): https://github.com/textext/textext/releases

Compatibility chart:

Inkscape	TexText
1.3.x	>=1.9.0
1.2.x, 1.1.x, 1.0.x	1.8.2
0.92.x	0.11

Documentation

Documentation hosted at https://textext.github.io/textext. It contains installation and usage instructions.

History

This repository continues the development of the plugin which took place at https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext until January 2018. Originally, TexText had been developed by Pauli Virtanen based on the plugin InkLaTeX written by Toru Araki.