That looks very close to what I was after, thanks. It's definitely much better than parsing the file manually and it'll give me an X/Y reference point for my calculations :) One remaining issue is that the tspan element can have letter kerning. Eg. <tspan x="0 1 2 50" y="0" id=&q...

Hi, is there a way to retrieve the X/Y/width/height coordinates of individual items in an SVG page? E.g. something that will resolve nested transformation matrices, font sizes and kerning and other font metrics, or any other layout aspects of the format. Parsing SVG files directly won't reveal this ...

michaelkatz wrote:Thanks for this tip.

Just so you know this only works on Windows because only the Windows versions of Inkscape supports EMF.