Batch PDF creation
Dear fellow Inkscapists,
I was wondering if anyone here had a solution for this before I dive into trying to hack something together. The situation is that I have an SVG, where different layers have different languages, and other layers have different graphics. The various combinations of these get exported to in total 9 PDFs, with that number bound to increase. How do I automate that?
Two ideas
1) Does someone have a script that finds a group by its "label", and sets an attribute? (In this case, finds it breadth-first, with the label being the layer name, and setting style=display:none or display:inline.)
2) Is it possible to "include" parts of a document, like in C or LaTeX, but editable and with changes being saved to the individual files?
Best, Christoph
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:03:50 +0200 Christoph Raab <christoph@...3258...> wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here had a solution for this before I dive into trying to hack something together. The situation is that I have an SVG, where different layers have different languages, and other layers have different graphics. The various combinations of these get exported to in total 9 PDFs, with that number bound to increase. How do I automate that?
When I needed something similar I wrote an Awk program that read in a "config" file then switched layers on and off as specified in there and created a new temporary .inkscape file and exported from that. The config file also set options on colours to use for some elements and where various OS utilities were located because I used this on machines with different distros of Linux.
You are welcome to have the program, config and sample inkscape drawing. It works but I decided that if I ever needed to do it again for a new project I would use XSLT templates.
Mike
Hi Christoph,
I don't know about an extension that does /exactly/ this, but here are links to two extensions that /almost/ do what you want:
https://gitlab.com/su-v/inx-exportobjects (exports pdf, too! Also has a mechanism to limit export to certain layers and to keep a master layer. Combine with a CSV file, or write something that parses similar layer names and you should be done.)
https://github.com/jespino/inkscape-export-layers (allows to mark a layer that is supposed to be kept fixed by name)
Kind Regards, Maren
Am 31.07.2017 um 10:03 schrieb Christoph Raab:
Dear fellow Inkscapists,
I was wondering if anyone here had a solution for this before I dive into trying to hack something together. The situation is that I have an SVG, where different layers have different languages, and other layers have different graphics. The various combinations of these get exported to in total 9 PDFs, with that number bound to increase. How do I automate that?
Two ideas
- Does someone have a script that finds a group by its "label", and
sets an attribute? (In this case, finds it breadth-first, with the label being the layer name, and setting style=display:none or display:inline.)
- Is it possible to "include" parts of a document, like in C or LaTeX,
but editable and with changes being saved to the individual files?
Best, Christoph
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