Comment 5 for bug 1402731

1) Earlier reports which could be checked for possible side-effects of the proposed patch (or maybe for alternate solutions):
Bug #172079 Configure per-document LaTeX preamble for rendering formulas
Bug #212395 Feature request: Latex formula switch to pdflatex from pstoedit
Bug #367446 eqtexsvg: use free software only
Bug #1031658 In Render Latex it isn't possible to specify package paramters
Bug #1210287 LaTeX renderer shows an error message (but does render LaTeX formula)
Bug #1214577 eqtexsvg.py line 72: c.tag should be converted to string first
Bug #1318414 External Call of LaTeX broken for certain path names
Bug #1370693 eqtexsvg should use pdflatex and not die on home directories with spaces
Bug #1403454 Latex Formula crashes with Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams

2) Note also that the original author of the extension now has an updated repository for 'eqtexsvg' at github:
https://github.com/julienvitard/eqtexsvg
http://www.julienvitard.eu/en/projects_en.html

It might be worthwhile to coordinate major changes applied to Inkscape's copy of the extension with Julien Vitard (if he's interested).

On 2014-12-15 17:09 (+0100), Alexander wrote:
> 2. When post-processing LaTeX output pop up dialog with not-needed
> output: supressed by commenting code of it handler.

Won't this also prevent useful error messages from being displayed? It might be better to find a more fine-grained solution to filter out the noisy console messages returned by pstoedit when outlining glyphs (bug #1210287).