extension: save as SVG

caseygadd · Postby **caseygadd** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:39 pm

I am trying to write an extension that will save the selected as an SVG. I have been trying to find an example of scripting a "save as" call. I have had little luck. does anyone have an example of doing a save as svg with python?

Postby **prkos** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 2:49 am

There is some documentation on the website, and you can email the developers mailing list or come chat on IRC for help. Forum users aren't usually developers so I don't know har far you can get here with this.

Moini · Postby **Moini** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:42 am

You can export to plain SVG ( -l, --export-plain-svg=FILENAME, see https://inkscape.org/en/doc/inkscape-man.html), or use the development version that supports saving as Inkscape SVG also (see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... mmand_Line).

Moini · Postby **Moini** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:43 am

Or you can use Xverbs in current Inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_xverbs

caseygadd · Postby **caseygadd** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 5:48 am

I want to do the save while the file is open. is that possible with xverb? I thought it was a command line utility. this is what I have so far but it does not create a working svg file.

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#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import inkex       # Required

class MyExtensionName(inkex.Effect):
    def __init__(self):
        inkex.Effect.__init__(self)
        self.OptionParser.add_option('-x', '--something', action='store', type='string', dest='optionName',
                                     default='defaultvalue', help='Helper text for this option')

    def effect(self):
        option = self.options.optionName
        self._main_function(option)

    def _main_function(self, option):
      svg = self.document.getroot()
      f=open("C:\Users\casey\export.svg","w+")
      f.write(str(svg))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    MyExtension = MyExtensionName()
    MyExtension.affect()

Moini · Postby **Moini** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:57 pm

Via extensions, it's possible to call a second Inkscape instance that works on the open file. You can do anything with it that you can do with Inkscape command line.

See for example https://gitlab.com/su-v/inx-pathops/blo ... ps.py#L178 .

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