On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Bill Meahan <wmeahan94@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do recent versions of MKIV (specifically, the one in TeXLive 2012) support
> SVG graphics directly or is it still necessary to convert to PDF as in the
> wiki example?
>
> I've created a couple of items in Inkscape and can save them to PDF
> directly without the "automatic" background conversion but native SVG
> support would be better if it exists.
>
> No, mkiv still uses inkscape. Some time ago I've seen rsvg I've also tried
a kind of native support with a lua binding for librsvg, but the rsvg
converter is not good as the inkscape program.
-- 
luigi