Hello,

I am using Inkscape 0.46 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have installed textext successfully, and as long as I do not specify a header file, the code is compiled wonderfully. But in order to create latex textboxes for scientific posters, I have stumbled upon this page:

http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/po ... ribus.html

The author creates textboxes using latex beamer. On the above link, he gives both a header file and the code required to create a textbox. Now, I created a file header.inc, copied the header from the page into the text file, and then launched Inkscape and selected the header file in textext. Then, I copied the code for the textbox from the above page to the textext text window. But unfortunately, it didn't compile. Here's a screenshot showing the problem (I've have also removed the french accents to avoid further latex trouble):

http://img2.abload.de/img/textext_problemcrvj.png

And here is the complete error code that textext gives me:



I also tried other (more simple and non-beamer) preambles, but I ended up not being able to compile themn. What strikes me is the line "Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands". Does that perhaps mean that textext always uses some kind of header file (including a documentclass statement) and uses my header file only as a supplement to his own and therefore conflicts in having multiple documentclass statements?

I'd really appreciate some help here!

keenPenguin with best regards!

I don't use LaTeX myself - but just from reading <http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/posters/LaTeX-scribus.html> AFAIU it's intended to be used to create a separate document for each textblock which is then imported as PDF into Scribus.

That means that the code posted on that page is not meant to be included into another LaTeX document, but (after conversion with the mentioned python-script to PDF) into a 'global' Scribus document used to layout several textboxes on one page.

Thanks suv,

you're right, I didn't see that.

But still, the complaint about the two documentclass statements is strange. I also did try a simple hello world from a simple latex preamble saved as header.inc., but it didn't work either.

Maybe related to this issue on the TeX Text issue tracker?

pv / textext / issues / #3 - LaTeX documentclass cannot be changed. — bitbucket.org:
<http://bitbucket.org/pv/textext/issue/3/latex-documentclass-cannot-be-changed>

Yeah, seems to be a similar problem.

It's actually a pity that things are so complicated with textext, I mean it would be wonderful if I could insert blocks written in tex (similar to the above link) into Inkscape, even without the frame. Inkscape is good for scientific posters, and surely more convenient than Latex when it comes to posters. To combine them would be great...

Have you tried the LaTeX extension that is included in the bundled Inkscape extensions? AFAIK the version included in the prerelease builds of 0.47pre or current devel snapshots works out-of-the-box (with default LaTeX installation outside of Inkscape).

'Extensions > Render > LaTeX formula…'

eqtexsvg.py