I really need to accompany some work I'm doing in LaTeX with some diagrams, and Inkscape seemed like a good choice for this: fairly simplistic to use and vector graphics. However, I'm finding it ridiculously difficult to import the graphics into Latex; I've tried exporting the diagram as a pdf, but the pdflatex compiler says that there's no bounding box, so I tried exporting it as the .tex file with pstricks macros and putting \usepackage{pstricks} in my preamble and compiling with plain latex, which causes it to stop with no apparent reason on (I'm trying to import the file srule.tex with \include{srule})

I've looked around with Google and no-one's seemed to have any issue importing the pdf from Inkscape with the graphicx package but me--what can I do? Latex is great until moment like these, which have you ready to pull your hair out, heh.

Your method (export as pdf and include) has worked for me in the past but I'm now having the same problem!

Very annoying.

Try PDFTeXify, it solves my `no bounding box' problem. Though I still have no idea what's happening there...