#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # file svg2pdftex.py # This file is part of LyX, the document processor. # Licence details can be found in the file COPYING. # author Daniel Gloger # author Martin Vermeer # author Jürgen Spitzmüller # Full author contact details are available in file CREDITS # This script converts an SVG image to two files that can be processed # with pdflatex into high quality PDF. It requires Inkscape. # Usage: # python svg2pdftex.py [inkscape_command] inputfile.svg outputfile.pdf_tex # This command generates # 1. outputfile.pdf -- the converted PDF file (text from SVG stripped) # 2. outputfile.pdf_tex -- a TeX file that can be included in your # LaTeX document using '\input{outputfile.pdf_text}' # # Note: # Do not use this command as # python svg2pdftex.py [inkscape_command] inputfile.svg outputfile.pdf # the real PDF file would be overwritten by a TeX file named outputfile.pdf. # import os, sys, re def runCommand(cmd): ''' Utility function: run a command, quit if fails ''' if os.system(cmd) != 0: print "Command '%s' fails." % cmd sys.exit(1) InkscapeCmd = "inkscape" InputFile = "" OutputFile = "" # We expect two or three args: the names of the input and output files # and optionally the inkscape command (with path if needed). args = len(sys.argv) if args == 3: # Two args: input and output file only InputFile, OutputFile = sys.argv[1:] elif args == 4: # Three args: first arg is inkscape command InkscapeCmd, InputFile, OutputFile = sys.argv[1:] else: # Invalid number of args. Exit with error. sys.exit(1) # Fail silently if the file doesn't exist if not os.path.isfile(InputFile): sys.exit(0) # Strip the extension from ${OutputFile} OutBase = os.path.splitext(OutputFile)[0] # Inkscape (as of 0.48) can output SVG images as a PDF file without text, ${OutBase}.pdf, # while outsourcing the text to a LaTeX file ${OutBase}.pdf_tex which includes and overlays # the PDF image and can be \input to LaTeX files. We rename the latter file to ${OutputFile} # (although this is probably the name it already has). runCommand('%s --file=%s --export-pdf=%s.pdf --export-latex' % (InkscapeCmd, InputFile, OutBase)) os.rename('%s.pdf_tex' % OutBase, OutputFile)