On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 8:50:36 AM CET Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > [...] > > > And it may even require "--shell-escape" to be passed at the xelatex > > > call if inkscape is not in the path, with seems to be a strong > > > indication that SVG support is not native to texlive, but, instead, > > > just a way to make LaTeX to call inkscape to do the image conversion. > > > > Please don't require --shell-escape as part of the TeX workflow. If > > LaTeX can't handle the desired image format natively, it needs > > conversion in advance. > > Agreed. I sent a patch series to linux-doc, doing the conversion in > advance: > https://marc.info/?l=linux-doc&m=147859902804144&w=2 > > Not sure why, but the archives don't have all patches yet. > Anyway, the relevant one is this: > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/commit/?h=pdf-fixes&id=5d41c452c787f6a6c755a3855312435bc439acb8 > > It basically calls ImageMagick "convert" tool for all png and > pdf files currently at the documentation (they're all at media, > ATM). It looks like we still need to find a way to address the .gif files though, as they have the same problem as the .pdf files. During the kernel summit, I looked around for any binary files in the kernel source tree, and except for the penguin logo, they are all in Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/, but they are not all pdf files, but also .png and .pdf. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
