Hi. I have a situation where writing a script would really help, but I've never done that before, and I can't find any reference on the subject. If you know of a reference, please point me to it.
The problem is this. I'm making a deck of game cards. I've created an Inkscape document containing all of the elements of the cards, and basically each card should contain one element from each layer. I need to iterate through all combinations of those elements, showing the active ones, hiding the others, and exporting the result. Something like the following.
for a from 1 to A { for b from 1 to B { ... hide all elements of layer 1 show element a hide all elements of layer 2 show element b ... export document }}...
I found several 3rd-party extensions that looked like they could do what I wanted, but I couldn't get any of them to work. Either they crash, or they don't show up in the Extensions menu at all. (I know I have to move the files into the extensions folder -- in my case, ~/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions -- and restart Inkscape). For example, https://github.com/fluffware/export_layer_combinations looks like pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, but it doesn't show up in the Extensions menu.
Thank you for the suggestion. I am using Ubuntu, and I tried the ppa version, but that didn't help. However, I found a different extension (https://github.com/nshkurkin/inkscape-export-layer-combos) that worked for me. So I'm all set now.
Beyond the Basics scripting (show/hide/export iteration)
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Hi. I have a situation where writing a script would really help, but I've never done that before, and I can't find any reference on the subject. If you know of a reference, please point me to it.
The problem is this. I'm making a deck of game cards. I've created an Inkscape document containing all of the elements of the cards, and basically each card should contain one element from each layer. I need to iterate through all combinations of those elements, showing the active ones, hiding the others, and exporting the result. Something like the following.
for a from 1 to A {for b from 1 to B {
...
hide all elements of layer 1
show element a
hide all elements of layer 2
show element b
...
export document
}}...
Thanks.
It's something which could be written as a python extension.
https://inkscape.gitlab.io/extensions/documentation/source/index.html
It could in theory be achieved via the command line - but more more complex.
The language you are using looks like javascript ?
Here is an example extension:
Works for 2 layer documents only
https://gitlab.com/inklinea/layer_combinations
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Extensions>Export>Layer Combinations]I found several 3rd-party extensions that looked like they could do what I wanted, but I couldn't get any of them to work. Either they crash, or they don't show up in the Extensions menu at all. (I know I have to move the files into the extensions folder -- in my case, ~/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/extensions -- and restart Inkscape). For example, https://github.com/fluffware/export_layer_combinations looks like pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, but it doesn't show up in the Extensions menu.
If you are using a Flatpak install of Inkscape, some extensions may not work.
If you are using Ubuntu, trying using the ppa instead.
https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.1/gnulinux/
Thank you for the suggestion. I am using Ubuntu, and I tried the ppa version, but that didn't help. However, I found a different extension (https://github.com/nshkurkin/inkscape-export-layer-combos) that worked for me. So I'm all set now.