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 information unless I do a lot of math, and I was hoping that Inkscape has this available already somewhere.

I guess I'm looking for a renderer with an API where I can query where it's putting things on the page. Does such a thing exist?

Checkout the CLI query options http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... Query.html

http://inkscape.modevia.com/inkscape-man.html

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="tspan34">ABCD</tspan>

(the letter "D" is offset by 50 units)

And parent elements may have their own transformation matrices that distort the position of "D" yet further. Is there a way to get X/Y coordinates of each letter? (even if it means tweaking the SVG slightly)