Hello,

I am using inkscape 0.91 under windows and have cygwin installed so I can use make to process a bunch of .svg files more easily.

I have a bunch of black on transparent drawings (transparent background, black text, black paths, and black bitmap images) to export to PNG but I want to make the background white and then invert all colors first.

I tried:



I found the second --verb argument by



I also tried using negative instead of the f031 (invert) with:


Am I doing something fundamentally wrong or is it just a minor misconception leading to an easily fixable solution?

Thanks in advance
-Dan

This probably won't help. But just in case. https://inkscape.org/en/doc/inkscape-man.html

It is the manual which got me to the point where I am (png export working but the --verb part not working)

I haven't spent time yet trying to run this locally, but at first sight you'll likely need to run two separate loops / inkscape processes - one to apply the verb (save the changes with '--verb=FileSave' and '--verb=FileQuit'), and another loop which then exports the saved version to PNG.

Personally, I'd probably prefer to use one of the 'org.inkscape.color.*' verbs (if applicable) - these are the extensions which actually modify the RGB values applied in the 'style' attribute of vector elements (won't affect bitmap images).

The 'org.inkscape.effect.filter.*' verbs on the other hand will apply one of the preset filter effects (see also menu 'Filters') - they will also work for linked/embedded bitmap images.

~suv wrote:I haven't spent time yet trying to run this locally, but at first sight you'll likely need to run two separate loops / inkscape processes - one to apply the verb (save the changes with '--verb=FileSave' and '--verb=FileQuit'), and another loop which then exports the saved version to PNG.

Ah. That was the missing bit. Needed to save the change before export. Here is what I'm using now:



It seems to be working now. Thanks!


-Dan