LibreOffice + Inkscape EPS-Latex

Question

I'm trying to import a graphic created in LibreOffice Draw in a LaTeX document.

So far I've tried the Way:

1. Export Document to SVG file.
2. Open with Inkscape and Export using eps+latex
3. Including resulting xxx.eps_tex in latex

Although the SVG seems to be just fine (also in Inkscape), the exported positions of the text are bad:

\begin{picture}(1,0.73115748)%
   \put(0,0){\includegraphics[width=\unitlength]{ModeDispersion.eps}}%
   \put(-0.05241193,0.78432034){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{Cladding (air)}}}%
   \put(-0.05241193,0.78432034){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{Substrate}}}%
   \put(-0.05241193,0.78432034){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{In}}}%
   \put(-0.05472789,0.25830639){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{Out}}}%
   \put(-0.05472789,0.25830639){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{Single-mode}}}%
\end{picture}%

and so on. Same for pdf+latex.

Original LibreOffice (version 4.0.1.2) file and exported SVG: ODG SVG

I can't attach the files created by Inkscape (version 0.48.3.1), as stackoverflow told me that I would need at least ten reputations to do so...

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

edit: Shown in inkscpae:

_{(source: x-linux.de)}

Processed using latex:

_{(source: x-linux.de)}

Answer 1

• The graphics figure Work flow adopted by you .odg-->.svg--> eps+tex/pdf+tex is not optimal due to conversion inefficiency of respective editor.

• The recommended choice of figure format is .pdf always except for screenshots (.png) and photos (.jpg) assuming pdflatex engine.

• Adopt a 'single' conversion step to generate figure.pdf. Either .svg to .pdf or .odg to .pdf not combine them.

• Inkscape exports to .pdf with latex fonts(latin modern) or close enough, similarly LibreOffice. I have successfully changed the fonts and exported your drawing using Libreoffice to .pdf. You can even draw in Inkscape and export to pdf also.

• But these are not the best approaches for high quality and font consistency with latex text. Read Why draw diagrams using LaTeX when there are open source tools like OpenOffice?. Select those vectorial graphic packages which suits you.

Answer 2

Why don't you export your drawing as .png and the incorporate it like this?

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pgf}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
  \pgfimage[width=0.6\textwidth]{myshapes.png}
\end{center}

\end{document}

You will need to use pdflatex to compile your .tex file.

You can get the whole bunch of files for the above solution here.

Answer 3

When exporting from LibreOffice, the SVG XML gets exported as:

<svg>
   <text>
      <tspan>
         <tspan>
            <tspan>
            </tspan>
         </tspan>
      </tspan>
   </text>
</svg>

The problem is that PDF Export only look coordinate in to text mark. I just copied the x,y coordinate do text markup.

I made a quick fix using python and I am sharing at gitgub:

https://github.com/thalesmaoa/libreoffice-Calc-SVG-Latex

The result is exactly what I was looking for: