Re: how to handle svg files when exporting orgmode to html and pdf?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hello Malcolm,

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:25:15PM -0700, Malcolm Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am creating .svg files with R source blocks and ESS in org.
> 
> I am happily viewing them in-line in my emacs buffer.
> 
> I am happily exporting as html and viewing them in-line in the resulting web 
> page, including a table of images.
> 
> I do not have an approach for including them into PDF when I export->tex->pdf.
> 
> I'm thinking there might be an approach to converting them on-the-fly to png 
> (or something) during the export->tex->pdf.
> 
> A similar problem was addressed with custom macros here: 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/56532/focus=58322
> 
> But it does not work with  R source blocks that produce .svg files.
> 
> Any suggestions for me?  Is this a lost cause?  Am I asking for too many 
> assumptions to be made by such an auto-conversion process that it is doomed 
> to fail anyway?
> 

This kind of niche Org mode questions are more likely to be answered on
the Org mode list.  I would encourage you to post there in the future.

That said, maybe the following Worg entry will help you adapt it for R:
<http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-LaTeX.html#sec-4-3>

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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