[Tugindia] Including svg figures

[V. Sasi Kumar]

On 5/17/06, S. venkataraman <svenkat at ignou.ac.in> wrote:
>
> As far as I know, svg is not supported.(In fact all formats are
> supported externally in keeping with the philosophy behind latex.)

I guess someone may soon build a package to support svg. What do you
mean by 'externally supported'?

> What you can probably
> do is to use inkscape to convert to eps or some other format.
> Inkscape is free software and it is available for windows and linux.

I use GNU/Linux and am familiar with Inkscape. But that conversion
involves another step. I was trying to see if I could avoid that.
Seems I cannot. :-)

Thanks for the info.

Best
V. Sasi Kumar