Creating LaTeX figures with Inkscape
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Updated 2019-07-15
Motivation
Just to remember the (good?) days when I was TA at college.
Supply-demand classic figure
For example, consider this classic supply-demand chart (right-click on the image to download the editable svg):
If you’d like to include it in a LaTeX document or presentation you can write the tex formulas in the figure, like this:
You can save the figure as svg and pdf with this options enabled (don’t forget to keep an svg copy):
Finally you can create a pdf like this:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{transparent} \usepackage{import} \begin{document} \begin{figure}[h] \centering \input{example2.pdf_tex} \caption{Supply and demand.} \end{figure} \end{document}
Check the result here.
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