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Dear stackoverflow community,

I am in the midst of writing my thesis and I want my figures to have the same font as my text in Latex. I have a lot of figures, so I would like the process to be automatic. for that purpose, I have found the neat *.pgf format that Latex can handle with

\usepackage{pgfplots}

and

\begin{figure}
    \input{./example.pgf}
\end{figure}

With *.pgf files the font is automatically adjusted, which is exactly what I want. It works great with the figures that I created with matplotlib.pyplot.

My issue: I have now created figures in CorelDraw such as this one. I also want these figures as *.pgf so Latex automatically knows what is text and converts it to the same font as the rest of the document.

My question: Do you have an idea how to create *pgf files? Or is there another way of editing the font in my figures?

My attempt to solve it: I have tried exporting the file in CorelDraw to *.eps and using eps2pgf converting it to *.pgf. Sadly eps2pgf does not show compability with the *.eps file created by CorelDraw (error report). I thought I might be able to export it to Inkscape and exporting as an *.eps file there, but the conversion doesn't work either.

PS: CorelDraw can export to all of these file formats.

F. Pantigny
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Benno P.
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  • Inkscape can export to LaTeX → https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151232/exporting-from-inkscape-to-latex-via-tikz#151287 So maybe you can import your figures in or recreate with inkscape – DG' Nov 06 '18 at 13:39
  • Let me note that pgfplots is here sort of an overkill. It should of course do the job, since it is based on TikZ/pgf, but a slightly more minimal package to load would be tikz. –  Nov 06 '18 at 14:41
  • thanks for the comment, that's why it was slow :) – Benno P. Nov 06 '18 at 14:45
  • Never seen a pgf file, but I suspect that it resembles the legend stored in the aux file. That is, it is full of TikZ basic commands, like \pgfpathmoveto and \pgfpathlineto. – John Kormylo Nov 07 '18 at 14:28

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The solution via Inkscape worked! Thank you DG' for showing me the right direction! :) I am not converting the file to *pgf, but using the export function of Inkscape like this:

  1. Export the graphic as *.svg file in CorelDraw
  2. Import the *.svg file and edit it in Inkscape
  3. Export it as pdf like DG' mentioned in a comment on my question
  4. After doing these steps I was able to import the figure in latex like this: this:

\usepackage{tikz}

and

\begin{figure}
    \graphicspath{{figures/}}
    \def\svgwidth{\linewidth}
    \input{./figures/example_figure.pdf_tex}
    \caption{}
\end{figure}

(Don't ask me why I had to specify \graphicspath, but without it, latex doesn't find the pdf file.

Benno P.
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