Inkscape + pdftex?

Question

I have a small drawing in Inkscape and I want to embed it in a LaTeX document which I compile using pdftex. pdftex seem to have an oddity of not accepting .eps. infact if what I understood is correct the only vector graphics format it accepts is pdf. When I save my drawing in Inkscape as pdf then what I get is a pdf with a full page with my drawing in the upper corner.
Is there a way to import an Inkscape drawing to pdftex and ignoring this page size? Or do I need to start fiddling with the page settings to make the page size exactly fit the size of my drawing?

Answer 1

Are you giving the optional scaling parameters to \includegraphics? PDF handles bounding boxes differently from encapsulated postscript, and auto-sizing does not seem to work as well.

Answer 2

As far as I know, you have to adjust the bounding box resp. paper size in your PDF. There are tools like eps2pdf to convert EPS to PDF with the same bounding box.

Answer 3

Yes, pdftex does not accept eps.

I have used inkscape to make figures that I incorporate into .tex documents that I then process with pdflatex. And yes, I set the page size in inkscape so that the figure fits.

You could also try to export to .eps from inkscape, then convert to pdf with the "epstopdf" tool.

Answer 4

So it turns out that Inkscape has a button on the Document properties titled "Fit page to selection" which makes this easier. Oh well.