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I did most of the illustrations in my PhD thesis using PowerPoint (export via PDF and include in Latex), which I found more practical than Inkscape. Of course i
by ThePhysicist 8y ago
I did most of the illustrations in my PhD thesis using PowerPoint (export via PDF and include in Latex), which I found more practical than Inkscape. Of course it’s not designed for scientific diagrams but you can actually produce some pretty decent looking illustrations with it.
- rubidium 8y agoWas this due to already knowing PowerPoint and not knowing Inkscape? I can think of exactly 0 ways in which PowerPoint is better :) Can you link to your thesis?
- ThePhysicist 8y agoThesis is here: https://github.com/adewes/phd-thesis-physics https://github.com/adewes/phd-thesis-physics Inkscape was very difficult to use at the time (IMHO) and had lots of bugs, maybe this improved in the meantime as almost 10 years have passed.