Re: [O] how to handle svg files when exporting orgmode to html and pdf?

[Aaron Ecay]

Hi Malcom,

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Malcolm Cook <address@hidden> wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> Thanks for staying with me on this.
>
> I'm not sure what you're suggesting.
>
> Nonetheless, I just updated org from `git clone 
> git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git`
>
> So, now I'm got org-version  release_8.0.7-377-gef2d47.dirty.
>
> Are you suggesting that  with this patch.svg created with exporting
> graphics :file should now display in the emacs buffer when I toggle
> display of inline images?  I wish they would.  They do not, despite my
> adding "svg" to org-export-latex-inline-image-extensions.

This I believe relies on your emacs binary having support for svg
images.  You can check if emacs is linked against librsvg with the
following shell command (assuming you are on linux):
$ ldd `which emacs` | grep svg

Which should give you some line of output like
    librsvg-2.so.2 => /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2 (0xb6a86000)

Within emacs, M-: (image-type-available-p 'svg) RET should display t

In buffer viewing of svg works for me without any additional setup,
upon pressing C-c C-x C-v, in an emacs with svg support.

>
> Are you suggesting that such a .svg created by org code block would be
> appear in the pdf created when I export to latex -> pdf?  I wish that
> also... that's what I've been trying to accomplish.

Yes.  I'm attaching the testsvg.org file (slightly modified from the
one you sent) and resultant latex export I get from the same git
version as you...as you can see, the [[file:mtcars.svg]] link is
translated into an \includesvg LaTeX command.  Does it work the same
for you?

>
> PS - I see you are/were in PA in linguistics.   My first job after my
> masters in AI from U Mass was at CMU's psych dept as a lisp programmer
> for John Anderson's intelligent tutoring systems.  I then went on in
> computational linguistics a bit, working on a marcus parser based
> natural language processing system at wang labs.  Ages ago.  Now I'm
> in computational biology.  The one commonality through it all?  Emacs!

:)  I'm in the doctoral program in linguistics at Penn, and a happy
emacs user for several years.  Here's to many more!

testsvg.org
Description: Binary data

testsvg.tex
Description: TeX document