On 14-8-2011 21:04, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

Hi,

FYI, for a few weeks now Nikita Kitaev has been working on an svg2sif extension that allows exporting SVG to Synfig Studio animation editor documents.

https://github.com/nikitakit/svg2sif

He hopes that it will eventually replace the existing SVG importer in Synfig.

Discussion forum is here: http://www.synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2953

(After a very brief look) Apparently, the extension requires all shapes to be converted to paths. Because it is implemented as a python script, an extra Inkscape subprocess is launched to convert the non-path shapes to paths. I see the benefit of having a Python script, but is it not easier/faster in this case to write it in C++ in Inkscape's codebase ? Or, alternatively, we could add an option for extensions to request SVG's with path-shapes only...?

(Alexandre, can you forward this to Nikita? Thanks)

Ciao, Johan