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I am completely new to Inkscape and I want to use mathematical symbols in it, so I have to use Latex, with which I am familiar. Inkscape is installed on a Linux system, with ghostscript, pstoedit, python-lxml and texlive installed (is there anything missing?).
I installed the extension "textext". And now the problem:
When I try to render the sample formula $sum_{i=1}^n n^2$ then textext reports the following error:
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inkscape and latex
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hauntergeist
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towolf
Re: inkscape and latex
I suggest you uninstall pstoedit (because it sucks) and install pdf2svg which works nicely.
Look for the link on the textext page for a link.
http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/softwar ... index.html
You example works here:
Look for the link on the textext page for a link.
http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/softwar ... index.html
You example works here:
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hauntergeist
Re: inkscape and latex
Yeha, it works! Thank you very much, towolf 
I had to add /usr/local/bin to PATH to get it working, but nothing more.
Thanks a lot.
I had to add /usr/local/bin to PATH to get it working, but nothing more.
Thanks a lot.