Thank you very much for that pointer. Yes, I know they're text files. I've been editing them with awk, but it's a bit of a fiddle getting the context right - you have to find the text, then work back to the object that it's contained in. Not impossible, but it looks as if an inkscape extension might be a more sensible solution since it knows about the objects.
On 27 February 2015 at 14:18, Vasco <vasco+python@...3082...> wrote:
Dear Peter,
SVG files are plain text files. You mention in your explanation that you only have to replace a certain string (one url with another one). This can be done with any editor, for example with sed (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10309968/sed-search-and-replace-strings-c...).
If you have to do more logic, it is better to write an inkscape extension. This is just a script, that reads a svg file and outputs the converted svg file. I have good experiences writing extensions in python.
A relevant resource is: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial
Here the inkex class does all the reading/writing of the files. I wrote: https://bitbucket.org/vascotenner/inkscape-fix_text_boxes
Kind regards, Vasco
On 26-02-15 06:31, Peter Brooks wrote:
I've been trying to do this for a while now, and I hoped that it'd be possible with the inkscape command line, but I'm new to this, so I can't see how.
I've got a .svg file that's from the OpenGroup's Archi application. It's got boxes and links with names.
What I'd like to do is make the names clickable. So, for example, the box:
---------------------- | | | my_label | | | ----------------------Would be clickable, as a box, and go to:
This will work because I'm using a wiki, so the 'my_label' will become a page on the wiki.
Is there a way to get inkscape to add the link:
<a xlink:href="http://mywebsite.com/my_label"> box </a>
Or, in other words, to translate:
<a xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=Service_agreement">
<text fill="black" x="332" xml:space="preserve" y="159" clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" stroke="none" id="text88738">My_Label</text> <rect x="1356" y="370" clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" fill="none" width="246" rx="27.5" ry="27.5" height="54" stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" id="rect88726" />To:
<a xlink:href="http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki/index.php?title=My_Label"> <text fill="black" x="332" xml:space="preserve" y="159" clip-path="url(#clipPath8)" stroke="none" id="text88738">My_Label</text> <rect x="1356" y="370" clip-path="url(#clipPath5)" fill="none" width="246" rx="27.5" ry="27.5" height="54" stroke="rgb(255,255,181)" id="rect88726" /> </a>
I'd be grateful for any suggestions - if there's something else that manipulates .svg files that could do this, it'd be good to know!
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