Creating LaTeX figures with Inkscape
Tue, Dec 18, 2018Updated 2019-07-15
Motivation
Just to remember the (good?) days when I was TA at college.
Supply-demand classic figure
For example, consider this classic supply-demand chart (right-click on the image to download the editable svg):
Example 1: Upper-scripts made with inkscape options.
If you’d like to include it in a LaTeX document or presentation you can write the tex formulas in the figure, like this:
Example 2: Upper-scripts made with LaTeX formulas in inkscape.
You can save the figure as svg and pdf with this options enabled (don’t forget to keep an svg copy):

PDF exporting options.
Finally you can create a pdf like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{transparent}
\usepackage{import}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\input{example2.pdf_tex}
\caption{Supply and demand.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Check the result here.