latex-quick-figures package

Allows you to quickly add vector figures using inkscape's pdf_latex method.

Make sure that you have a directory "./figures" that is at least empty.
Make sure that your inkscape program is at C:/Program Files/.
Make sure that all your directory name has no " " (space) within them

The above prerequisite are to be solved in the future... but if you want to contribute, feel free to do so!

How to use

First, make sure to use the following packages!!

\usepackage{import, float, pdfpages, transparent, xcolor}

In your tex file, make a single line with xy where x is your template number, and y is your figure name. Then, press ctr + alt + o at the end of the line , or Package->Latex Quick Figures-> Make Latex Figure Make sure that y has no spaces in them or it will not be compiled into .pdf_latex format later.

Following gif will quickly make you understand. Here we write 0simple and "cmd+alt+o", meaning we will get

In ./figures folder, a simple.svg file with template from "imageTemplate0.svg" (Willing to add features to make more features with templates.)
in snippit sense, adds all the latex strings within .tex file, which can be edited from "layoutData.txt"
Open simple.svg with inkscape, so you can immediately work.

Now you can also change caption, your figure position, etc... all this change within \begin{figure} ~ \end{figure} can be saved in "layoutData.txt".

$This sure does work!$

Figures are currently in .svg format, so we need to compile them into pdf_latex format (which you can do manually if you want). We have a command for that, which is Package->Latex Quick Figures->Compile All Figures. (should we add keybindings for this? Let me know)

After that, we have a simple.svg, simple.pdf_tex, simple.pdf in /figures folder. Now build your tex file to get the result!

$resulttexfile$