Inkscape

Scripting question - name of input file available

Asked by Steve Ylvisaker

We are wanting to write a script that will automatically "checkin" the file,currently open Inkscape, to our content management system. We tried but gave up doing this with version 0.46 because the file name was not available to the scripting language. Has this changed with 0.47. In other words, if I open the file steve-001.svg in inkscape can my script know the name steve-001.svg for its processing? If so - hints on how to do so would be appreciated.

Steve

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jazzynico (jazzynico) said : 		#2

Hi Steve,

The file name is stored in the sodipodi:docname attribute of the <svg> element. That's something you could easily access from your python script. You can use inkex (import inkex.py first!) and:

doc= self.document.getroot()
docname=doc.get(inkex.addNS('docname','sodipodi'))

AFAIK, it already worked in 0.46.

Regards.

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