Wasn’t there rsvg-convert as a CLI friendly alternative?
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> El 2 may 2025, a las 18:57, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> escribió:
> 
> Emin Martinian <emin.martin...@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Briefly speaking, the current latex export of SVG files does not work out
>> of the box and requires adding --shell-escape to the latex args and also
>> installing inkscape. Even with those, I found the process brittle. If we
>> are going to require inkscape for SVG handling, it seems cleaner to me to
>> just use inkscape to convert SVG to PDF and then use \includegraphics
>> instead of relying on something like \includesvg
>> <https://github.com/bzg/org-mode/blob/b6dbf8881076191e1351d7cd15e26547a2531fea/lisp/ox-latex.el#L2879>.
>> Also, if we go with the path of converting SVG to PDF, we can allow/support
>> other conversion programs like rsvg-convert. Finally, if other backend
>> exporters want to support SVG, converting SVG to PDF (or other formats) can
>> support that in a similar way.
> 
> In other words, should we try to go around \usepackage{svg} and instead
> convert svg->pdf ourselves, without forcing users to provide
> --shell-escape? Even in LuaLaTeX, where --shell-escape is not neccesary,
> svg may not render correctly without inkscape.
> 
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> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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