Hi Orm,

you'd need to run Inkscape in interactive shell mode to do this, as far as I know.

From the man page ('man inkscape' or

https://inkscape.org/en/doc/inkscape-man.html):

""" --shell

With this parameter, Inkscape will enter an interactive command line shell mode. In this mode, you type in commands at the prompt and Inkscape executes them, without you having to run a new copy of Inkscape for each command. This feature is mostly useful for scripting and server uses: it adds no new capabilities but allows you to improve the speed and memory requirements of any script that repeatedly calls Inkscape to perform command line tasks (such as export or conversions). Each command in shell mode must be a complete valid Inkscape command line but without the Inkscape program name, for example "file.svg --export-pdf=file.pdf". """

Hope this helps, I can't say anything about dbus etc.

Kind Regards, Maren

Am 07.04.2017 um 13:21 schrieb Orm Finnendahl:

Hi,

is there a way to send an existing inkscape instance a file-open message (with the document name as argument) from a terminal or another process?

It seems, the dbus interface would be the way to go but the API documentation only mentions a command to open a new document (which works BTW).

I'm on linux and inkscape is bzr-inkscape 0.91

-- Orm

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