Input Tex Output SVG

eqtexsvg_pipe.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
eqtexsvg.py
Modified from the script by Julien Vitard <julienvitard@gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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"""

import inkex, os, tempfile, sys, xml.dom.minidom, optparse

def create_equation_tex(filename, equation):
    tex = open(filename, 'w')
    tex.write("""%% processed with eqtexsvg.py
\\documentclass{article}
\\usepackage{amsmath}
\\usepackage{amssymb}
\\usepackage{amsfonts}

\\thispagestyle{empty}
\\begin{document}
""")
    tex.write(equation)
    tex.write("\n\\end{document}\n")
    tex.close()

class EQTEXSVG(inkex.Effect):
    def __init__(self, formula):
        inkex.Effect.__init__(self)
        self.formula = formula
    def effect(self):

        base_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp("", "inkscape-");
        latex_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.tex")
        aux_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.aux")
        log_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.log")
        ps_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.ps")
        dvi_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.dvi")
        svg_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.svg")
        out_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.out")
        err_file = os.path.join(base_dir, "eq.err")

        def clean():
            os.remove(latex_file)
            os.remove(aux_file)
            os.remove(log_file)
            os.remove(ps_file)
            os.remove(dvi_file)
            os.remove(svg_file)
            os.remove(out_file)
            if os.path.exists(err_file):
                os.remove(err_file)
            os.rmdir(base_dir)

        create_equation_tex(latex_file, self.formula)

        os.system('latex "-output-directory=%s" -halt-on-error "%s" > "%s"' \
                  % (base_dir, latex_file, out_file))
        try:
            os.stat(dvi_file)
        except OSError:
            print >>sys.stderr, "invalid LaTeX input:"
            print >>sys.stderr, self.formula
            print >>sys.stderr, "temporary files were left in:", base_dir
            sys.exit(1)

        os.system('dvips -q -f -E -D 600 -y 5000 -o "%s" "%s"' % (ps_file, dvi_file))
        # cd to base_dir is necessary, because pstoedit writes
        # temporary files to cwd and needs write permissions
        separator = ';'
        if os.name == 'nt':
            separator = '&&'
        os.system('cd "%s" %s pstoedit -f plot-svg -dt -ssp "%s" "%s" > "%s" 2> "%s"' \
                  % (base_dir, separator, ps_file, svg_file, out_file, err_file))

        # forward errors to stderr but skip pstoedit header
        if os.path.exists(err_file):
            err_stream = open(err_file, 'r')
            for line in err_stream:
                if not line.startswith('pstoedit: version'):
                    sys.stderr.write(line + '\n')
            err_stream.close()

        if os.path.exists(svg_file):
            output_svg = open(svg_file, 'r')
            for line in output_svg:
                sys.stdout.write(line + '\n')
            err_stream.close()

        clean()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
    parser.add_option("-f", "--formula", dest="formula", help='LaTeX formula to render')
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
    e = EQTEXSVG(options.formula)
    e.effect()
    sys.exit(0)