@Martin : I have no clue how to go about using libreoffice to communicate with Inkscape. What do you mean by "use on of the web browser packages" ? I happen to use d3.js everyday. My current workflow is : 1) draw svg stuff with D3 in the browser, 2) export it as an svg file, 3) edit it in Inkscape.
Having an extension working like Illustrator's would remove the first two steps.
Regards,
Pierre.
2017-01-08 23:05 GMT+01:00 Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...>:
Graphing is interesting. It'd be fun to try and use one of the web browser packages to use d3 or one of the many graphing libraries to generate the visualisations and use the svg directly in inkscape.
So many things which are theoretically possible.
On Sat, 2017-01-07 at 15:24 +0100, Pierre Massat wrote:
The extension you mentioned earlier already does importing spreadsheets. What Illustrators has is a spreadsheet like interface in the UI, like a small table with cells that can be edited. This would be very handy, but as I wrote in my original post Inkscape doesn't seem to make this type of UI element easy to create (which is OK, but makes the creation of extension that mimics Illustrator more difficult).
A proper way of developing this would be to have a hook into libreoffice calc, such that the data rows/cols are all in calc and inkscape does the visualisation.
Having two windows of two programs open and sharing data is harder than shuffling around a filename, but it's much more preferable to recreating widgets.
I'm not entirely sure if it'd even be possible to call a python script and have it use UNO to interact with an open spreadsheet, but it'd be really great if it could be made possible. An inkscape extension plus a libreoffice extension packaged together as a separate lib.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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