Hi together,

i am brandnew to Inkscape ... so i tried to find some information in the forum and did not succeed ...

My task is as follows:

I create flowcharts in Excel and want to turn them in SVG-Files. 
Is it possible to automate this via an Inkscape API-Call
My hope is that i can export a PDF from Excel, call an Inkscape API-Function to import the PDF and export a SVG-File.

Thanks for any idea

Peter

Have you considered LibreOffice Calc?  It exports charts as SVG directly.

Hi Tyler,

thanks for your idea.

Unfortunately i have to use Excel as my customer uses only this :-(

Peter

You can use Inkscape a command line tool, for example:

inkscape -l out.svg in.pdf

https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_the_Command_Line

Hi jonpatterns,

thanks very much for your help.

I'll give it a try - there will be enough time over easter :-) :-(

😮

You can just and paste the charts directly from excel to inkscape......

What i meant to say is that rather then converting it to a pdf you can just copy and paste it into inkscape from excel. As for the API..can't help there..sorry