Hi John,

thanks!

This is the forum post with the improved version of the script:
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8826#p32088

And here is the original version (same forum topic):
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8826#p31912

Best wishes,
Jens




Am 02/11/2019 um 13:29 schrieb John Cliff:
> Whats the correct link for the forum post? you seem to have linked the
> paper twice.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:38 PM Jens Lallensack
> <jens.lallensack@gmail.com <mailto:jens.lallensack@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     I am palaeontologist at the University of Bonn, Germany, focusing on
>     fossil dinosaur footprints and trackways. I regularly use Inkscape for
>     my research (for measuring, data extration, and drawing of interpretive
>     outlines), and have cited this software in several of my papers.
>
>     I am currently working on a methodological paper on how to analyze
>     fossil footprints based on 3D models. The approach I will present in
>     this paper includes Inkscape as an important component. The idea is to
>     import raster images into Inkscape (different graphical 2D
>     representations of the 3D model), align them into an image stack, and
>     draw interpretive outlines on a separate layer. I use the Bezier curves
>     tool to collect a number of landmark coordinates from the separate
>     footprints, which I then export to automatically calculate a large
>     number of measurements for statistical analysis. The paper is to be
>     published in a peer-revied journal (currently, I have the Journal of
>     Palaeontological Techniques in mind,
>     https://www.jpaleontologicaltechniques.org/).
>
>     I already used this method in a recent paper
>     (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2018.1512501) to
>     rapidly collect measurements of a larger number of trackways. The
>     aim of
>     the new methodological paper is to improve this method and to make it
>     available to our comunity of footprint researchers. However, there are
>     two open issues/questions regarding Inkscape. I was wondering if you
>     could give me some advice here.
>
>     Export of path node coordinates is, unfortunately, currently possible
>     only via a plugin, which adds an additional hitch (but I understand
>     that
>     research is not the focus of Inkscape). Such a plugin was posted on the
>     Inkscape Forum in 2011, with improvements added by different members
>     (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2018.1512501). I
>     simplified the code so that it returns node coordinates only (and not
>     those of the handles), see code below.
>
>     Now to my questions:
>
>     1) I need to cite the modified coord export script in my paper, and
>     make
>     sure that it stays available. I assume that code published in the forum
>     is not automatically released under a free licence, and that I cannot
>     simply distribute the script together with the paper. A possibility
>     might be to post the modified script to the forum and provide the link
>     in the paper. This is only an option if the link remains available
>     for a
>     longer time (I cannot modify the paper once published). What would be
>     the optimal way?
>
>     2) The coordinates given by the script need to be mirrored and
>     translated to match the coordinates displayed within Inkscape itself. I
>     would need to improve the script so that this is done automatically.
>     I'm
>     not into python scripting, but would try to figure this out. Any
>     help/hints with this would be much appreciated.
>
>     Thank you very much in advance.
>
>     Kind regards,
>     Jens Lallensack
>
>
>
>     ----- xyexport.py -------
>
>     #!/usr/bin/env python
>
>     import inkex
>     import sys
>     import simpletransform
>     import cubicsuperpath
>
>     class TemplateEffect(inkex.Effect):
>           def __init__(self):
>               inkex.Effect.__init__(self)
>           def effect(self):
>               for node in self.selected.iteritems():
>                   output_all = output_nodes = ""
>                   for id, node in self.selected.iteritems():
>                       if node.tag == inkex.addNS('path','svg'):
>                           output_all += ""
>                           output_nodes += ""
>                           simpletransform.fuseTransform(node)
>                           d = node.get('d')
>                           p = cubicsuperpath.parsePath(d)
>                           for subpath in p:
>                               for csp in subpath:
>                                   output_nodes += str(csp[1][0]) + "\t" +
>     str(csp[1][1]) + "\n"
>                   sys.stderr.write(output_nodes)
>     effect = TemplateEffect()
>     effect.affect()
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