I am trying to make an extension and the text positioning is driving me mad (especially when the sodipodi:role is set). Things would be so much easier if there was a bounding box function for text, but according to the documentation the only one available is horrible and cannot determine the true limits. I confirmed this.
Is there really no good way to get text's bounding box programmatically?
tProc = subprocess.run( 'inkscape --query-all "%s"' % self.options.input_file, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) tFStR = tProc.stdout # List of all SVG objects in tFile tErrM = tProc.stderr # inkex.utils.debug(tFStR) tBBLi = tFStR.splitlines() x=[[float(x.strip('\'')) for x in str(d).split(',')[1:]] for d in tBBLi] bbs=dict(); for d in tBBLi: key = str(d).split(',')[0][2:]; data = [float(x.strip('\'')) for x in str(d).split(',')[1:]] bbs[key] = data; return bbs
But now I'm wondering if there's a way to calculate the true x and y of a text object from its bounding box.
In particular, this strategy is really limiting because (as far as I can tell), the command-line version will only ever get the bounding box from before the extension was called. It doesn't update it.
Running inkscape manually can result in API problems as inkscape's interface changes. There's a command module to help you use these calls, see `inkex.command.inkscape` and some examples in the core repository.
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I am trying to make an extension and the text positioning is driving me mad (especially when the sodipodi:role is set). Things would be so much easier if there was a bounding box function for text, but according to the documentation the only one available is horrible and cannot determine the true limits. I confirmed this.
Is there really no good way to get text's bounding box programmatically?
Well, I found a way. It's not pretty though: it requires a command line call.
import sys, copy
sys.path.append('/usr/share/inkscape/extensions')
import subprocess
tProc = subprocess.run( 'inkscape --query-all "%s"' % self.options.input_file, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
tFStR = tProc.stdout # List of all SVG objects in tFile
tErrM = tProc.stderr
# inkex.utils.debug(tFStR)
tBBLi = tFStR.splitlines()
x=[[float(x.strip('\'')) for x in str(d).split(',')[1:]] for d in tBBLi]
bbs=dict();
for d in tBBLi:
key = str(d).split(',')[0][2:];
data = [float(x.strip('\'')) for x in str(d).split(',')[1:]]
bbs[key] = data;
return bbs
But now I'm wondering if there's a way to calculate the true x and y of a text object from its bounding box.
In particular, this strategy is really limiting because (as far as I can tell), the command-line version will only ever get the bounding box from before the extension was called. It doesn't update it.
Running inkscape manually can result in API problems as inkscape's interface changes. There's a command module to help you use these calls, see `inkex.command.inkscape` and some examples in the core repository.