Re: [Orgmode] plantuml and svg format instead of png - feature request

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Rainer,

Sorry about the delayed reply.

Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:

> On 10/09/10 20:40, Eric Schulte wrote:
>> Hi Rainer,
>> 
>> If you could send me an example of how to generate an svg image using
>> plantuml on the command line, I'll add that functionality to
>> ob-plantuml.el.
>
> from org:
>
> #+begin_src :file test.svg :commandline -tsvg
>  ...
> #+end_src
>
> command line:
>
> java -jar plantuml.jar -tsvg -p < sequence.plantuml > sequence.svg
>

Whenever the extension of the :file header argument is "svg" the
appropriate "-tsvg" flag will now automatically be added to the command
line.

>
> with direct conversion to pdf when using rsvg-convert:
>
> java -jar plantuml.jar -tsvg -p < sequence.plantuml | rsvg-convert -f
> pdf > sequence.pdf
>

This looks nice, but it requires a second utility rsvg-convert.  I think
this functionality would be better implemented using the long-awaited-
but-not-yet-developed post-processing code blocks.

Best -- Eric

>
> Options for rsvg-convert:
>  -f , --format=[png, pdf, ps, svg]     save format [optional; defaults
> to 'png']
>
> the others are not that relevant.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer
>
>> 
>> Thanks -- Eric
>> 
>> Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I just saw that a bug in plantuml is fixed - namely that -tsvg is
>>> compatible with the -pipe optin. Therefore it should be possible top
>>> produce svg vector graphs from plantuml.
>>>
>>> In a second step, these could be converted to png, pdf or ps with the
>>> packagelibrsvg2-bin (I am using ubuntu), therefore producing high
>>> quality graphs.
>>>
>>> As I don't know how to implement it, would it be possible to implement
>>>
>>> - that, depending on the :file name specified, either a .png or a .svg
>>> is produced by plantuml
>>>
>>> The conversion to ps or pdf could then be done in a second bash script.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> and I really like the plantuml integration for quickly documenting with
>>> flowcharts while programming - brilliant.
>>>
>>> Rainer