Hi, I am trying to create an extension to duplicate the page. The Python file receives the page index, selects all objects of the page, copy, paste " on page " on the target page (using the page index).

I am trying to do this using inkex. I do not know how to connect the .py file to Inkscape though. Any help will be great.

Hi, I managed to create an .inx file and I can see my Extension under Extension. But it is greyed out

Am I doing something wrong here?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<inkscape-extension xmlns="http://www.inkscape.org/namespace/inkscape/extension">

<!-- 1. Replace this with the title of your extension. This will Show in the extensions menu-->
<_name>Replicate</_name>

<!-- 2. Fill this in. It ensures that your extension has a unique ID -->
<id>com.dilip.replicate</id>

<!-- 3. Show the relative path to your extension. For example, `~/.config/inkscape/extensions/template.py` would be `template.py`-->
<dependency type="executable" location="extensions">/home/user/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/Replicate/replicate.py</dependency>
<dependency type="executable" location="extensions">inkex.py</dependency>

<effect>
    <object-type>all</object-type>
    <effects-menu>

    <!-- 4. Where is your extension located? (You can nest menus) -->
    <submenu _name="submenu"/>

    </effects-menu>
</effect>
<script>

    <!-- 5. Same as #4 -->
    <command reldir="extensions" interpreter="python">/home/user/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/Replicate/replicate.py</command>

</script>
</inkscape-extension>

Have a look at the example .inx on this page https://inkscape.gitlab.io/extensions/documentation/tutorial/my-first-text-extension.html

It's probably better to just put your extension in the normal extension folder to start with.

so on Ubuntu ( or similar )

/home/USER/.config/inkscape/extensions/

put the .inx and .py in its own subfolder to prevent it getting lost :)

Hi, thanks. I was using path, changing to simple replicate.py solved the issue. Now I need to fix my code. It is not reading the number of pages. :(

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/Replicate/replicate.py", line 32, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/user/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions/Replicate/replicate.py", line 19, in main
    doc = inkex.document.get_root()
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'inkex' has no attribute 'document'

This is what I have

import inkex

def select_and_copy(page_index):
  # Select all objects on the given page
  inkex.selection.set_path(inkex.xpath.get_descendants(inkex.document.get_root(), "svg:g[@id='layer*'][@inkscape:page='%d']" % page_index))

  # Copy selected objects
  inkex.selection.copy()

def paste_on_page(page_index):
  # Select the last page
  inkex.selection.set_path(inkex.xpath.get_element_by_id(inkex.document.get_root(), "svg:g[@id='layer*'][@inkscape:page='%d']" % (page_index + 1)))

  # Paste copied objects
  inkex.selection.paste()

def main():
  # Get document and number of pages
  doc = inkex.document.get_root()
  num_pages = len(inkex.xpath.getelembytagname(doc, "svg:g", {"inkscape:page": "*"}))

  # Select and copy from second-to-last page
  select_and_copy(num_pages - 2)

  # Paste on last page
  paste_on_page(num_pages - 1)

  # Apply changes to document
  inkex.effect.apply(inkex.Effect("internal", "**.select-all**"))

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

Is there any way to copy everything in page 2 to page 3? I will be able to manually change the page numbers and then be able to duplicate pages at will. Thanks

There are a couple of extensions I have written you could look at

Create an array of new blank pages:

https://gitlab.com/inklinea/page_array

Duplicate or clone content selected on page 1 across pages.

https://gitlab.com/inklinea/page-watermark

Page watermark does not handle 2D page arrays ( I do have a version that does that, but not released yet )

Thanks, checking now :)