Insert Latex to Inkscape in Windows

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I have Windows 7 64 bit. I installed these with the given order:

  1. Miktex (Basic-miktex-2.9.4521.exe)
  2. Ghost script (gs905w32.exe)
  3. GSView (gsv50w32.exe)
  4. Pstoedit (pstoeditsetup_win32.exe)
  5. Inkscape (Inkscape-0.48.2-1-win32.exe)

However, I still am not able to see Extensions -> Render -> Latex Formula in Inkscape. What is missing?

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I would like to add that the latest ghostscript version (at the time of writing) 9.22 throws some depriciation errors but using the version suggested in the accepted answer (by Sait), 9.05, fixed everything for me. Thanks!

I used the following versions on Windows 10:

  1. Miktex (MiKTeX2.9, 32 bit I think; this one may be Basic-miktex-2.9.4521.exe)
  2. Ghost script (gs905w32.exe and NOT the latest at the time, gs922w32.exe)
  3. GSView (gsv50w32.exe)
  4. Pstoedit (pstoeditsetup_win32.exe)
  5. ImageMagick (ImageMagick- 7.0.7-Q16)
  6. Inkscape (Inkscape 0.92.2 (5c3e80d, 2017-08-06), presumably 32 bit)

Caveats:

  1. I used 32 bit versions, the 64 bit did not work at first some other problem)

  2. Ghost Script version 9.22 was throwing some depreciation errors. Version 9.05 worked like a charm.

  3. While installing pstoedit I checked: ".h and .lib files for using the pstoedit.dll in other programs" and "plugins SVG, MIF, EMF, CGM format (shareware)"
  4. I had image magick installed.

Source: http://knowledgepayback.blogspot.be/2017/09/surface-pro-2017-optimising-for.html

I found the existing answer unsatisfactory. MikTeX already ships with tools to convert PDF to SVG, and to compile LaTeX to PDF, so the dependencies seem rather artificial. I have found that one can build a newer version of the LaTeX extension which uses these tools https://github.com/juanjosegarciaripoll/inkscape-latex-miktex

Just copy the *.inx and *.py files into the Inkscape/share/extensions folder and start Inkscape. The interface is very primitive, and equations cannot be edited, but it works.

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