How to convert LaTeX equations to SVG?

Question

At the moment, I'm using mimetex to automatically convert a bunch of equations into gif-images.

The program is fast, but the images look pretty bad:

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How can I (quickly) convert a LaTeX equation into an SVG image on the command line?

Stefano Palazzo · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-11 16:10:31Z

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pdf2svg works quite well.

Use \pagestyle{empty} to avoid page numbers and pdfcrop (package texlive-extra-utils) to remove empty space around the equations

edited Jul 11 '11 at 16:10

Stefano Palazzo♦
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answered Apr 2 '11 at 22:46

Florian Diesch
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	That works well! It's a little bit slow, and I have a feeling I'm still not doing it quite right (here's the script I'm using). Thanks a lot! – Stefano Palazzo♦ Apr 2 '11 at 23:13
	Use pdflatex instead of latex, dvips and ps2pdf – Florian Diesch Apr 2 '11 at 23:32
	It's no faster, but works pretty well. I'd really like a solution that does this job in under 100 ms, and preferably without writing a whole load of files, but it works and I'm happy. :-) This is the result of your answer so far. – Stefano Palazzo♦ Apr 3 '11 at 0:53
	@Florian Diesch; the example link seems broken, can you remedy, perhaps embedding the example image? – enzotib Jul 11 '11 at 9:55

Kris · Answer 2 · 2012-01-05 09:43:16Z

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Have you tried ekee? It's a clone of LatexIt for Mac, it's great! It's hosted on http://rlehy.free.fr/.

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answered Jan 5 '12 at 9:43

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texnic · Answer 3 · 2011-07-11 07:30:13Z

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dvisvgm works quickly and nicely in my experience. It's in TeX Live 2010.

answered Jul 11 '11 at 7:30

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