[OS X TeX] SVG to LaTeX?

[Alain Schremmer]

Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> In the preamble:
>>
>> \begin{filecontents*}{mypicture.svg}
>> ... SVG coding for a picture ...
>> \end{filecontents*}
>>
>> In the document body:
>>
>> \begin{figure}
>> \centering
>> \immediate\write18{svg2pdf mypicture.svg mypicture.pdf}%
>> \includegraphics{mypicture.pdf}
>> \caption{...}\label{...}
>> \end{figure}
>
>
> I just did that but it didn't work. Specifically:
>
> 1) I created a file TestForSVG.tex in a folder called TestFor SVG
> with my usual preamble and with just "TESTING" in the document body
> and typeset it.
>
> 2) I drew a rectangle in Intaglio and saved it as mypicture.svg in
> the TestForSVG folder.
>
> 3) In the preamble of TestForSVG.tex I inserted
>
> \begin{filecontents*}{mypicture.svg}
> ... SVG coding for a picture ...
> \end{filecontents*}
>
> 4) I opened mypicture.svg with TeXShop which gave me:
>
> þÿ

Now this is sometithing! For whatever reason, only this much of the 
message got posted. As soon as I can recompose it, I am going to 
repost—without the svg code.

Regards
--schremmer
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