Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ eps to pstricks, pgf or eepic (impossible?)

[Ijon Tichy]

The exported TikZ code is often extremely big. And it is not optimized for human reader. I've tried to use it a few years ago, but it was unusable.

Inkscape provides also export of images as combination of LaTeX-Code for the text and PDF or EPS for the graphics. But you should use an up-to-date inkscape for it, because there were some versions with completely broken PDF-TeX export, where the generated TeX file contained \includegraphics commands for pages, which were not part of the exported PDF file.

However, IMHO the main problem of the OP was to generate vector graphics from bitmap images. Indeed something inkscape can also do at least for such easy images. However, generating such images with TikZ directly shouldn't be a real problem as already told and shown years ago.

[cocka]

OK, never mind, my question is at least 12 years old.

I haven't dealt with LaTeX since then.

[Ijon Tichy]

@cocka Yes, from time to time someone replies to very old discussions. Mostly these are nonsense replies, e.g., from spam bots. Sometimes they are not. I always doubt, that such replies make much sense, but sometimes I indeed reply to such strange replies myself.

[cocka]

Yes, it's quite understandable if there was no other topic like this.

I wrote my thesis and thought it would be a better solution to use vector graphics, though I had not enough time to learn how to "draw" with codes.