You also have to make sure you compile with the -shell-escape flag enabled, so that the tex file can run external commands i.e. You can check this by typing 'inkscape' into terminal and seeing if it opens.) (Apparently this should also just happen automatically. Into terminal, if your inkscape installation is in the usual place.

It seems you do this by typingĪlias inkscape='/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/MacOS/inkscape' Some technical know-how that I had to sleuth: on a mac (and elsewhere) you have to make sure that inkscape is properly known to the system via path. It then includes the whole thing into the document by some magic - just like the old save as pdf + tex did.

At this point, the package strips the text from the svg and write separate files - one with the image, and one with the pdf_tex which contains the text of the svg compiled with latex. This allows one to save an Inkscape svg with LaTeX text in it, and include the svg into the tex file natively as one would any other graphic. It seems the modern solution is to essentially divorce the tex work from Inkscape entirely, and use the package 'svg' for LaTeX. Update: I found a solution to replace the old functionality of 'save as pdf + tex'.

How to compile latex file to pdf mac