Hi friends. I love the ability to generate a graph of my org-roam nodes. Yesterday I tried out a new technique – I printed out a small graph of a book I’m reading, and took notes on that graph as I read. At the end, I went to Emacs and created nodes etc as needed to capture what I drew.
In the process, I learned that if you want to ‘posterize’ a large document in MacOS, the easiest way to do this is by making it a PDF file, and then using Acrobat to split your document up over multiple sheets of paper.
In order to get org-roam to generate a PDF rather than an SVG, I needed to change these two lines in org-roam-graph–build:
(temp-graph (make-temp-file "graph." nil ".svg")))
:command (,org-roam-graph-executable ,temp-dot “-Tsvg” “-o” ,temp-graph)`
When I changed the svgs to pdfs, everything worked just fine, and the org-protocol links back to Emacs all still worked too.
I haven’t tried doing this yet, but was curious to know if people thought this would be a reasonable PR to submit, along with changing the code above to use this new variable:
(defcustom org-roam-graph-filetype "svg"
"Type of image file to create.
It may be one of the following:
- svg
- pdf"
:type '(choice
(const :tag "svg")
(const :tag "pdf"))
:group 'org-roam)
I would ideally propose this change for both the v1 and v2 branches.
p.s. of course we could add whatever other suffixes we want, and/or make it so the suffix is just a string and people can change it to whatever they think might work in dot
p.p.s. Is this a reasonable post to make here on discourse or should I have just posted this as an issue on github?
