Hi Juan,
Thanks for your answeer.
Indeed, the generated tex files are different whether you use the png or
svg extension.
It seems that for svg, a distinct build system is used from the usual
one for other image types (png, jpg).
This build system seems based on tex4ht, given the latex file preamble.
I tried to compile manually this temporary latex file (the one for svg)
with "pdflatex" which fails. Then, I tried with "htlatex" and guess what
... it works ! A svg file is created, which unfortunately does not
contain everything, but this was only manual compiling, probably some
missing options.
I think at first there may be a bug in my own configuration of the
variable "org-latex-pdf-process" which should be passed the correct
build system.
Regards
Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes:
> Hi Edouard,
>
> Edouard Debry writes:
>
>> I would like to find a way to generate svg images from latex src blocks
>> (using tikz) which works and is compatible with default orgmode settings
>> for latex export (at least does not break it)
>>
>> Did you experience such issues ? do you have some workings settings and
>> examples ? I googled several times "org latex block tikz svg", but it is
>> difficult to guess how relevant are the elements found, some of them
>> seems quiet outdated. Hence my question on this mailing list
>
> I've done some quick tests with your example block. I don't know if I'm
> wrong, but I think the problem is on line 27 of `org-babel-execute:latex':
>
> ((string= "svg" extension)
>
> I don't know if this should be considered an Org bug, but it's clear
> that if the svg extension is detected in :file, the ':imagemagick yes'
> option is ignored, and a type of preamble is generated that fails in
> pgfsysdriver when compiling the temp tex document:
>
> \documentclass[preview]{standalone}
> \def\pgfsysdriver{pgfsys-tex4ht.def}
>
> If I replace the above line with this conditional:
>
> ((and (string= "svg" extension) (not imagemagick))
>
> then the imagemagick option is taken into account: it creates correctly
> the pdf and then converts it to svg with 'convert' imagemagick program.
> I did have to remove this line though:
>
> #+HEADER: :imoutoptions -geometry 400 :iminoptions -density 600
>
> otherwise, the conversion produced a dark image.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
