Hi,

I'm really newly in Inkscape extension writing. I'm used with Inkscape drawing and I was facing some iterative task for creating font icons. So I would like to write an extension for automating these repeating actions.

Here is the general description of my goal:

- I'm drawing icon set in an single svg file. Icons are made of parts (paths, objects, texts) which are grouped in g element.
- Selecting a single group (my final icon), I would like a shortcut to create a final and unique path which is an union of all objects of the group.

This extension ideally would use inkscape native actions and perform them in this order:
- clone group selected to working group.
- perform Inkscape's "degroup" action on working group until there is no more group.
- perform Inkscape's convert "object to path" action
- perform Inkscape's "regroup" action on working group until there is no more group (due to text object convertion to path as text is a group of path).
- perform Inkscape's "path union" action with all paths.
- copy final path to clipboard to allow paste on another svg file.

Is this possible with current Inkscape extension SDK?

Best Regards,
S.

You don't even need to write an extension for that.

There is a 'deep ungroup' extension somewhere on the web, and you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it. After that, select it, do Ctrl+Shift+K, then you'd only have to do a path -> union (unless you're really using clones? You could also just duplicate...).

I'd use the deep ungroup extension in combination with inkscape commandline script to do this for several files at once.

Not sure why you need the regrouping?

Inkscape commandline reference: https://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html
Deep ungroup extension: will be available in 0.92 (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171117), original extension can be found here:
https://gitlab.com/mcepl/inkscape_ungro ... ree/master