Native support for the LaTeX format (.tex) in the export module

[francoisgigon]

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to congratulate you on the remarkable quality of your Draw.io application, as well as on your ongoing efforts to improve it.

Please allow me to submit a feature request regarding the export functionality.
Currently, the application allows users to produce high-quality diagrams in various formats. However, many users would greatly benefit from the implementation of a native export module to the LaTeX format (.tex) such as TikZ, PGF/TikZ, or any other vector representation compatible with LaTeX.

Such a feature would be a particularly useful improvement for many professional, academic, and institutional users and would offer several significant advantages.

First, LaTeX remains the gold standard for writing scientific publications, academic theses, complex technical reports, and numerous institutional documents requiring impeccable typographic quality. The ability to directly export a diagram as a LaTeX source file would allow for its seamless integration into a document workflow entirely based on this ecosystem.

From a broader perspective, this development would enhance the software’s interoperability and contribute to its adoption by a particularly demanding community.

By way of example, the following features could be considered:

generation of a standalone .tex file;
export based on the TikZ library;
preservation of the logical structure of nodes, links, and styles;
support for colors and essential formatting;
an option to insert the diagram as a standalone environment or as a fragment that can be directly integrated into an existing document.

I am aware that developing such a feature involves technical choices and trade-offs regarding priorities.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of this proposal.

Sincerely, François

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Summary: The user requests a native export feature to generate LaTeX-compatible files (e.g., TikZ/PGF) from draw.io diagrams, preserving nodes, links, styles, and colors, to enable seamless integration into LaTeX-based document workflows commonly used in academic and scientific publishing.

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📝 Additional Information Needed

To help us investigate this more effectively, could you please provide:

• Have you considered using the existing SVG export and then converting to TikZ using external tools such as svg2tikz (https://github.com/xyz2tex/svg2tikz) or Inkscape's TikZ export extension as a workaround?
• Would exporting to SVG and embedding it in LaTeX via the \includesvg or \includegraphics commands (with PDF conversion) meet your needs, or is native TikZ code generation essential for your workflow?
• Which specific diagram element types (flowcharts, UML, network diagrams, etc.) are most important for you to have faithfully represented in TikZ output?

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[davidjgraph]

Thanks for the suggestion, but this is outside the scope of the project.