On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:57 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I need the formulas as vector graphics. No bitmaps, please. Because > print output will be to laser and raster images on lasers are generally > ugly.
It looks like inkscape has a LaTeX tool: http://eugenwintersberger.vox.com/library/post/use-inkscape-with-latex.html assuming that works, you could make your formulas in LaTeX, then generate the images with inkscape. --Rogan > > OOo has a dandy Math module that creates these beautifully. However, it > has so many bugs that it is currently unusable. (Yes, even 2.4.1 on > Hardy.) Furthermore, you can use it to place the formula in an OOo > document (e.g., Writer), but the only export option is PDF. I'd much > prefer EPS or SVG because you can't easily place a PDF in another > program. > > KFormula also has a nice little math editor that is in many ways even > easier to use than OOo's math editor. However, it has even more bugs > than OOo's math editor. It offers an EPS export option, but if you try > it you get "unable to parse xml data." Ditto for its SVG export option. > (I may pursue this further if I can't find anything better.) > > LyX creates dandy formulas, but if I want them in a specific font I can > get them out of LyX only in PDF format. > > Why the problem with PDF, you ask? Because I really need the formulas > as individual graphics. I can export anything that I can print to PDF > with CUPS-PDF. But to convert that to a vector graphic does not seem > possible. I could use pdf2ps and then convert the PS. But pdf2ps > rasterizes the PDF. No more scaling for that image. > > Scribus can take LaTeX code and generate a formula from it. Works a > treat, except that the output is a bitmap and you have your choice of > only three fonts, and only the regular-italic versions. > > I should add that I am not faulting Linux here. There are only three > packages that I know of on Windows that can do what I want, and they > are all outrageously expensive (InDesign, FrameMaker and Ventura). And > two of them are in a rest home. > > It may not be possible to do what I want, but I thought I'd ask anyway. > Any suggestions welcome. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
