Text scaling issues

[mitar]

I cannot really get text to correctly align with the image. I am guessing because the image is heavily scaled down. I tried using pretex=\tiny and pretex=\relscale{0.1} but it is still off (text too large).

I am thinking that maybe a solution would be if:

• Inkscape is used to convert to PDF + LaTeX.
• pdflatex is used on empty LaTeX document with just including that PDF + LaTeX to generate a new PDF file, but with LaTeX fonts.
• I then include that PDF file into my main document, scaling it as necessary.

That would make it use the LaTeX fonts but allow precise scaling as needed.

It looks like this package could support that but it is not yet fully possible? So svg-extract could extract to a separate PDF with custom preamble in extractpreamble, but then I think that instead of the original image the extracted PDF should be included in the main document.

[mrpiggi]

If I get you right you are trying to extract a large picture, where the text actually is in the right size but the resulting image has to be scaled down for inclusion in the document, right? Well, currently not an easy task but could be done with something like

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\ifpdftex{
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
}{
  \usepackage{fontspec}
}
\usepackage{svg}
\usepackage{svg-extract}

\begin{document}
\section*{This is a test}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includesvg[%
  exclude,
  extractpath=basedir,extractname=filename,%
  pretex=\Huge,
  extractwidth=50cm
]{svg-example}
\IfFileExists{svg-example_svg-tex-extract.pdf}{%
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{svg-example_svg-tex-extract.pdf}%
}{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

As you can see, this is a combination of using \includesvg for extraction and \includegraphics afterwards.

I will try to create a new command \includesvgextracted but this will probably will last some time as I have to think about how this could be implemented regarding for example the handling of passed parameters, extracted file type and more.

Included SVG file
Result

[mitar]

Awesome!

[mitar]

Just to give you an example which was tricky:
pipeline-test.zip

[pietrocolombo]

I solved it like this:

\begin{figure}[ht]
    \centering
    \includesvg[inkscapelatex=false, scale=0.6, keepaspectratio]{plot/number_trip_week_day.svg}
    \caption{caption}
\end{figure}

[mitar]

I think this works when image is not really really huge.

[pietrocolombo]

Before:

After (inkscapelatex=false):

[mitar]

Try with an example I attached above.

[pietrocolombo]

With the example I obtain this:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\ifpdftex{
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
}{
  \usepackage{fontspec}
}
\usepackage{svg}
\usepackage{svg-extract}

\begin{document}
\section*{This is a test}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includesvg[inkscapelatex=false, scale=0.13]{pipeline-test.svg}
  \caption{}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

This is without inkscapelatex=false

[mitar]

Oh, yes, but with inkscapelatex=false then one cannot enter math formulas and stuff for text, no?

[pietrocolombo]

I have never tried with math formulas

[mitar]

I mean, this is the mean reason why to use this package, no? Otherwise I can just export SVG to PDF myself and embed it as PDF into my LaTeX document? If I understand correctly, setting inkscapelatex=false does that?