Re: General Purpose Python Scripting for Inkscape.

Really exciting news! Thanks for your work!

On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, 03:27 , <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Frank Martínez,
>
> This work looks really exciting. I'd love to get you in touch with
> Thomas Wiesner who has done a similar work in progress merge request:
>
> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/417
>
> This functionality is similar, although not exactly the same. I believe
> though that issues around how python accesses the internal svg document
> are going to be the same.
>
> The landing plan for such a feature would have to be post 1.0, so if
> you were able to produce a branch on GitLab, then we would review it
> but only want to merge it in after the 1.0 release is out the door.
>
> You can also join us at https://chat.inkscape.org to talk more to other
> developers as well as sending your message to the inkscape-devel
> mailing list.
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
> On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 20:42 -0500, Frank Martínez wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Inkscape is amazing!, I am a professional software developer, I have
> > been working in an embedded scripting plugin for Inkscape, I started
> > doing it for my own purposes (designing electric guitars and CNC
> > parts) And now I have complete support for python scripting inside
> > inkscape. I will release the code as open source in Github or Gitlab
> > as soon as I can write some documentation. The attached screenshot
> > shows how it looks. The plugin has its own code editor with syntax
> > highlight, compilation check, and run. It uses only python and gtk3,
> > my working environment is Linux Mint, I am not sure if it will work
> > out of the box in windows or mac yet, but i  am pretty sure it will
> > run in all platforms eventually soon.
> >
> > The scripting environment gives full access to the svg document, xml
> > manipulation and also Object Oriented wrappers (mainly for path
> > creation and manipulation). Full python environment is also
> > available. The scripting code is stored inside the document (<script>
> > tags) and you can import external libraries too of course.
> >
> > I hope some contributions will make the project better with time.
> > This is not a macro system, you can not record actions or invoke GUI
> > actions, you can just write scripts inside the document and
> > manipulate the document itself, move, transform, change attributes,
> > create objects etc.. from python scripts.
> >
> > All your feedback will be welcome and I will be very pleased if the
> > project result useful for the community.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Frank.
> >
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