My LaTeX paper-writing workflow had suffered a severe blow when Inkscape 0.47 was introduced into Ubuntu repositories. With this version Inkscape switched to Cairo library for EPS export and that produced this bug for those of us who use pstricks to make the text in figures look more LaTeX-like.

For a few days I tried to bypass the problem … then I decided that it is better to think out of the box. I have found out this extension that allows you to insert LaTeX-styled text into SVGs as paths and also saves the original text as metadata so that you can edit it later on. The workflow is a bit different now, but nevertheless … this extension can be real time-saver I must say.