tikztosvg(1)

The tikztosvg(1) command renders TikZ diagrams to SVG, using xetex and pdf2svg.

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Usage

tikztosvg [OPTION]... INPUT_PATH

If INPUT_PATH is set to - the input will be read from stdin.

Options

-o, --output=OUTPUT_PATH

Write output to file OUTPUT_PATH. If set to - the output will be written to stdout. Defaults to the base name of the input file suffixed with the .svg extension. The file is resolved relative to the working directory.

-p, --package=+PACKAGE

Include \usepackage{PACKAGE} when rendering the diagram.

-q, --quiet

Silence application log messages and script warnings.

-h, --help

Print a help message.

-v, --version

Print version information.

Example

Let’s say you want to convert the file exemple.tikz to SVG:

\begin{tikzcd}
    G \arrow[r, "\varphi"] \arrow[d, "\psi"', two heads] & H \\
    \sfrac{G}{\ker \varphi} \arrow[ru, dotted]           &
\end{tikzcd}

You could achieve that by running the following command:

tikztosvg -p tikz-cd -p xfrac example.tikz

The results will be stored in the file example.svg:

Installation

The tikztosvg(1) command and it’s man page can be installed in Unix systems by running:

$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GarkGarcia/tikztosvg/master/install.sh | sudo sh

The executable is installed in $HOME/.local/bin/ and the man-page is installed in $HOME/.local/share/man/man1/.

Authors

TikzToSvg was written by Pablo Emílio Escobar Gavira.

pdf2svg was written by David Barton and Matthew Flaschen.

License

© 2020 Pablo Emílio Escobar Gaviria.

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License.