4 # This file is part of LyX, the document processor.
5 # Licence details can be found in the file COPYING.
8 # author Martin Vermeer
9 # author Jürgen Spitzmüller
11 # Full author contact details are available in file CREDITS
13 # This script converts an SVG image to two files that can be processed
14 # with pdflatex into high quality PDF. It requires Inkscape.
17 # python svg2pdftex.py [--unstable] [inkscape_command] inputfile.svg outputfile.pdf_tex
18 # This command generates
19 # 1. outputfile.pdf -- the converted PDF file (text from SVG stripped)
20 # 2. outputfile.pdf_tex -- a TeX file that can be included in your
21 # LaTeX document using '\input{outputfile.pdf_text}'
22 # use --unstable for inkscape < 1.0
25 # Do not use this command as
26 # python svg2pdftex.py [inkscape_command] inputfile.svg outputfile.pdf
27 # the real PDF file would be overwritten by a TeX file named outputfile.pdf.
31 import os, sys, re, subprocess
35 run a command, quit if fails
37 res = subprocess.check_call(cmd)
39 print("Command '%s' fails (exit code: %i)." % (res.cmd, res.returncode))
42 InkscapeCmd = "inkscape"
47 # We expect two to four args: the names of the input and output files
48 # and optionally the inkscape command (with path if needed) and --unstable.
51 # Two args: input and output file only
52 InputFile, OutputFile = sys.argv[1:]
54 # Three args: check whether we have --unstable as first arg
55 if sys.argv[1] == "--unstable":
57 InputFile, OutputFile = sys.argv[2:]
59 InkscapeCmd, InputFile, OutputFile = sys.argv[1:]
61 # Four args: check whether we have --unstable as first arg
62 if sys.argv[1] != "--unstable":
63 # Invalid number of args. Exit with error.
67 InkscapeCmd, InputFile, OutputFile = sys.argv[2:]
69 # Invalid number of args. Exit with error.
72 # Fail silently if the file doesn't exist
73 if not os.path.isfile(InputFile):
76 # Strip the extension from ${OutputFile}
77 OutBase = os.path.splitext(OutputFile)[0]
79 # Inkscape (as of 0.48) can output SVG images as a PDF file without text, ${OutBase}.pdf,
80 # while outsourcing the text to a LaTeX file ${OutBase}.pdf_tex which includes and overlays
81 # the PDF image and can be \input to LaTeX files. We rename the latter file to ${OutputFile}
82 # (although this is probably the name it already has).
84 runCommand([r'%s' % InkscapeCmd, '--file=%s' % InputFile, '--export-pdf=%s.pdf' % OutBase, '--export-latex'])
86 runCommand([r'%s' % InkscapeCmd, '%s' % InputFile, '--export-filename=%s.pdf' % OutBase, '--export-latex'])
88 os.rename('%s.pdf_tex' % OutBase, OutputFile)