Inkscape crashes when using pdflatex

zltn.guba

12/8/22, 7:47 PM

I started using Inkscape half a year ago and I was totally fine with it. A few days ago I wanted to add some inline LaTex (with pdflatex) to the project I was editing and when I click on apply the whole program crashes. I tried to go back to Inkscape 1.0.2 to see whether I can use that for editing but it still crashes.

I downloaded the 1.0.2 version from the official website as an AppImage. This is the error I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pdflatex.py", line 83, in <module>
    PdfLatex().run()
  File "/tmp/.mount_Inksca1ekPkB/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex/base.py", line 140, in run
    self.save_raw(self.effect())
  File "/tmp/.mount_Inksca1ekPkB/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex/extensions.py", line 159, in effect
    for child in fragment:
  File "pdflatex.py", line 56, in generate
    with open(svg_file, 'r') as fhl:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/inktmp59sokxrc/output.svg'

This happens whenever I type "\". I can happily write "asd" and it works, but this is not how I want to use it. As I am quite new to Ubuntu I have a hard time understanding what the problem is and what is the solution to this.

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N0rbert

12/9/22, 9:23 AM

For more reproducible results I would recommend to use deb-based Inkscape. You need to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install texlive pstoedit inkscape

Then use its preinstalled LaTeX extension (Inkscape, Extensions → Render → LaTeX).

Note: if you want to get latest version of Inkscape 1.1 - then install packages from official PPA as follows

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape

and use its built-in functionality via Extensions → Render → Mathematics → LaTeX (pdflatex).

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zltn.guba

12/11/22, 1:23 PM

I reinstalled Inkscape based on your comment and now it works. Thanks! I think that I did not have all the dependencies installed previously and that caused the bug.

Archisman Panigrahi

6/7/23, 2:53 AM

Same bug is present in Inkscape 1.2 PPA (Ubuntu 20.04). Shall I ask a new question and let you know here? @N0rbert

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