On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:58:01 +0100 Bernd D. <Feldrain@...889...> wrote: I think you need to invoke inkscape a second time, using subprocess.Popen or similar, and grab the output from inkscape with the following flags: inkscape --without-gui --query-all path/to/myfile.svg you may need to right the DOM to a file first. --query-all dumps id,x,y,width,height for every object in the file. If you only want info. on a single object you can use some of the other --query-??? flags - see inkscape --help Cheers -Terry