On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> wrote:
Yes, but you haven't answered the question: Why not just use Inkscape itself to make your grand SVG? How could making a bunch of babies, without simultaneously seeing the first ones, be easier than just building layers in Inkscape, and making them visible/invisible as necessary?
Im sorry, but Im afraid I dont fully understand/follow/grasp what you are trying to tell me here.
So lets assume that the file I attached in the previous mail is my 'grand svg'. I could make that in Inkscape. (in practice, i will be having multiple separate drawings, for example one drawing per subnet). How would I then proceed ? For example, tomorrow host x may be removed from a subnet, and host y may be added. How would I then change the drawing accordingly to reflect those changes from the command line in an automated unattended way ?
Im not sure if making layers visible/invisible would fulfill the requirements, but maybe I just dont understand the concept of layers correctly. Even if I could do that in an automated unattended way from the command line, objects wont always have to be at the same position in the drawing, and the text labels (like a hostname) for the objects will almost always be different.
Thanks for all the help so far,
Regards,
John Smith.