Re: [Orgmode] plantuml and svg format instead of png - feature request

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Rainer,

If you could send me an example of how to generate an svg image using
plantuml on the command line, I'll add that functionality to
ob-plantuml.el.

Thanks -- Eric

Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
>
> I just saw that a bug in plantuml is fixed - namely that -tsvg is
> compatible with the -pipe optin. Therefore it should be possible top
> produce svg vector graphs from plantuml.
>
> In a second step, these could be converted to png, pdf or ps with the
> packagelibrsvg2-bin (I am using ubuntu), therefore producing high
> quality graphs.
>
> As I don't know how to implement it, would it be possible to implement
>
> - that, depending on the :file name specified, either a .png or a .svg
> is produced by plantuml
>
> The conversion to ps or pdf could then be done in a second bash script.
>
> Thanks,
>
> and I really like the plantuml integration for quickly documenting with
> flowcharts while programming - brilliant.
>
> Rainer