I'm not quite sure whether my question really is a beginners question, but i'm certainly a beginner as this is my first post. Mucking around with Inkscape 1.3 (beta now) on a MacBook Pro M1. My interest is in tesselations of any kind. I'm also a data nerd of sorts wanting (imho not so) weird things and this weekend i stumbled over my first Inkscape one. Hence this post.
What i want is to include a variable or macro in a text string to be rendered to it's content at printing (saving?) time. Think along the lines of date-, time strings, but also the metadata and licensing information from the document properties. Or even something random within the UFT space?
I've a feeling as such it could be (a) function(s) in the default text extension. Or maybe there already is such an extension? Of maybe the is a reason why it's totally impossible and i'm not thinking straight?
Hi Polygon! Thanks, but that's not what i mean. I figure i shouldn't have put the UTF reference in my post (misspelled even).
In the document properties (shift-command-d) there is a tab named Metadata. (and License).
I want to be able to include whatever is entered there in a string in the text tool. Same for 'current' date and time strings. (where 'current' is to be interpret as last save/print date/time). That way a print can be easily 'watermarked'/identified.
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Hi,
I'm not quite sure whether my question really is a beginners question, but i'm certainly a beginner as this is my first post. Mucking around with Inkscape 1.3 (beta now) on a MacBook Pro M1. My interest is in tesselations of any kind. I'm also a data nerd of sorts wanting (imho not so) weird things and this weekend i stumbled over my first Inkscape one. Hence this post.
What i want is to include a variable or macro in a text string to be rendered to it's content at printing (saving?) time. Think along the lines of date-, time strings, but also the metadata and licensing information from the document properties. Or even something random within the UFT space?
I've a feeling as such it could be (a) function(s) in the default text extension. Or maybe there already is such an extension? Of maybe the is a reason why it's totally impossible and i'm not thinking straight?
not sure but does Text->Unicode Characters… probably help?
Hi Polygon! Thanks, but that's not what i mean. I figure i shouldn't have put the UTF reference in my post (misspelled even).
In the document properties (shift-command-d) there is a tab named Metadata. (and License).
I want to be able to include whatever is entered there in a string in the text tool. Same for 'current' date and time strings. (where 'current' is to be interpret as last save/print date/time). That way a print can be easily 'watermarked'/identified.
Hey, basically an SVG-file is an XML file.
So open it up in a document editor.
With some basic Javascript (or TS) you can reference elements in the DOM.
I know this isn't really a beginner-friendly answer, but maybe just the answer a data-nerd might be able to handle ;)
To get good text layout / sizing takes work.
However if it doesn't have to be perfect, reasonably straightforward.
Parse the metadata, create text elements , or if a path is selected, stick on the path.
Another thing exists in the Universe:
https://gitlab.com/inklinea/print-metadata
Wow, Inklinea! Too bad the datetime isn't there, but this already close to something workable for me!
I imagined something different, but an extension like this might do the job brilliantly. Maybe even better, since it needn't be very complicated.
And the best thing is i get to see how it's done.
Thank you very much!
I only hope to inspire others to write extensions :)
The file has to be saved for date/time to work.
I use the Inkscape extension system to write t hings that have do not even use Inkscape ;)
ffmpeg encoding script for example.