SVG to PDF
I'm using Yihui Xie's most excellent bookdown package to create my courseguide for BUSINESS 705.
One problem I have is that I use SVG images. That's all well and good when I am rendering the courseguide as an HTML book, but when I try and produce a PDF, bookdown (well LaTeX) chokes. It's no one's fault really. It's just a fact of life.
So, I need to convert my SVG images into PDFs. That'll fix the problem.
The way I do it is
inkscape mygraph.svg --export-pdf=mygraph.pdf
Easy!
I then created a Makefile
to cycle through all the SVGs in the images
director and convert them. I'm not sure how smart the Makefile is, but it works.
#
# Convert the SVG files to PDFs
#
SVGFILES := $(wildcard *.svg)
all: $(SVGFILES:%.svg=%.pdf)
%.pdf : %.svg
inkscape --export-pdf $*.pdf $*.svg