On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:43 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
I dunno about Gimp, but Inkscape extensions are pretty easy. This one however is a bit cumbersome because Inkscape does not pass to the extensions the bboxes of the selected objects. (I proposed to add this to the extensions API; Ted, is there any reason why you don't want to do this?) There's a workaround possible where you call another copy of Inkscape from the extension using the query command line params and parse what is returned - it's quite awkward but it works.
There is no reason that it hasn't been done other than time. I guess that, and deciding a format for it, but I think we've discussed that too (I'd have to go through my mail). This should be a pretty easy task for someone who wants to do it. There is already a loop going through all of the selected items, you'd just need to find the bounding boxes and add that to the parameter list.
--Ted