On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:58:11 -0400 Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 14:05 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
Because of its native text format and its ability to do complex graphics, Inkscape provides the ideal bridge between data and graphics.
I always thought a mail-merge type feature would be useful for inkscape. Python and the ability to open a few kinds of data-sources, but it would certainly be better than the same code being rewritten to account for data-merging.
What are your thoughts Steve? should we have this as a feature by default?
Martin,
Hi Martin,
I'm a big fan of do one thing and do it well, and IMHO Inkscape's one thing is graphics.
My viewpoint is that every added line of code gives bugs more places to hide, so I'm very skeptical of adding non-core features. Especially when it's so easy to do what I did.
So my opinion is "no". If the project would like, I could make some sort of howto to explain how to do it.
SteveT
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