Recently I wanted to include a directed graph in a LaTeX doc­u­ment. unfortunately I couldn't import an svg file to my document. So which meant I had to find another alternative method rather than converting the file to any other image format to avoid rasterization.

$ sudo apt-get install inkscape

$ inkscape -z image.svg image.eps --export-eps=image.eps

to receive the EPS(Encapsulated Postscript Vector graphics) file which I wanted to include in LaTeX. Run­ning Gummi with pdfla­tex for type­set­ting on a file con­tain­ing

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{image.eps}
\caption{image}
\label{fig:image}
\end{figure}

how­ever returns the error

! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.


This can be resolved by adding

\usepackage{epstopdf}

which allows to con­vert eps images to pdf for use with pdfla­tex. This works perfect.