Importing AE-diagrams in LaTex

[Rae]

Hi there.
I am new to this forum, so please tell me if i post topics in the wrong place.

We are currently in the process of describing a project in AE and writing the documentaion in LaTaX. Is there anyway of easily importing AE-diagrams to our LaTeX documents or are we forced to import them as Pictures?

Cheers
Rasmus

[qwerty]

Hi Rasmus,
I once wrote a script (in Perl) to export a model to LaTeX. It's a bit of work, to be honest. But it's very, very flexible. And - of course -  the LaTeX output is light years ahead of RTF.

http://community.sparxsystems.com/tutorials/535-7creating-marvelous-ea-documentation-using-latex

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P.S. It's EA, not AE  

[Rae]

That is some very nice work! Impressive how simple everything looks when you see the end-result of a Tex format, huh?

I think i will wait with the full scripting (from EA to LaTex).
Maybe you could give me a hint with "only the process" of exporting all my diagrams to png-images through a script?

I could make it so the diagrams would always keep the same name, and thus only have to implement the picture ones in LaTex. Even if i were to change Elements of the diagram.

[qwerty]

Exporting diagram images is quite easy. You need to traverse packages and elements for contained diagrams (Diagrams collection not empty). Then you issue ProjectInterface.SaveDiagramImageToFile for each of the diagrams (giving them a meaningful name).

q,

[kwasposer]

Hello, is there any update in generating Latex Documents with Enterprise Architect?

[qwerty]

Well, no. EA can't create LaTeX. You are on yourself. (I'm creating LaTeX since years, but I'm a strange guy anyways.)

q.

[kwasposer]

Really cool . I like strange!