Re: [Inkscape-devel] XMLifying of tutorials

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 01:32:48AM -0500, bulia byak wrote:

1 Add a couple new command line switches to Inkscape that would force it to load the document, find the object with the specified id, and report on the command line the width or height of that object's bbox, then quit.

How about a query _mode_. That way inkscape load itself and the SVG only once, and the client can keep asking questions of it until it's finished? Might be handy for other stuff later on too.