TexText 0.11 for Inkscape 0.92 on MacOS

Note

These instrcuctions refer to an installation of Inkscape via Homebrew. Please report any issues, comments or hints to https://github.com/textext/textext/issues/new

To install TexText 0.11 for Inkscape 0.92 on MacOS do the following steps:

Install dependencies of TexText 0.11 for Inkscape 0.92
Install TexText

Install dependencies

Install inkscape

To install using homebrew:

brew cask install inkscape

The Python modules required for the TexText GUI are already included in this Inkscape installation, see Information with respect to Python installation.

Install a pdf->svg converter

You have two options: pdf2svg (recommended) or pstoedit + ghostscript:

Install pdf2svg (recommended)

Install the pdf2svg package

To install using homebrew:

brew install pdf2svg

Install pstoedit (not recommended)

Some versions pstoedit fails to produce svg so it’s preferable to use pdf2svg.

To use pstoedit converter install the pstoedit package and check versions of installed versions of pstoedit and ghostscript

To install using homebrew:

brew install ghostscript
brew install pstoedit

To check versions run:

pstoedit --version
gs --version

Warning

Those combinations of pstoedit and ghostscript versions fails to produce svg on most distributions (see bb issue 48):

`pstoedit`	`ghostscript`
3.70	9.22

Please report any observations or problems in issue 30.

Install pdflatex/lualatex/xelatex

pdflatex, lualatex and xelatex are part of mactex package.

To install using homebrew:

brew cask install mactex

Install TexText

Download the most recent package from GitHub release page (direct links: .zip)
Extract the package and change to created directory.
Run setup.py from your terminal:
```
python setup.py
```
The script will check if all requirements described in Install dependencies are met. If so, it will install the extension files into the user’s Inkscape configuration directory (usually this is ~/.config/inkscape/extensions). If not, instructions are given helping to fix the problem.

Important

Ignore any messages about missing PyGTK packages! (Issue 31)
Note

If you would like to skip the requirement checks during installation call the script from the command line as follows:
```
python setup.py --skip-requirements-check
```

Information with respect to Python installation

Note

Homebrew’s Inkscape uses MacOS’s system Python interpreter in /usr/bin independently of any other installed Python interpreter (e.g. from Homebrew). The packages required for the GUI of TexText are already included in the Homebrew installation of Inkscape.

If the extension does not work despite this fact or installation fails please report this to https://github.com/textext/textext/issues/new

Thank you!