I have an SVG file coming from Inkscape, Illustrator, or any other application. I want to convert the shapes to lineto, moveto, curveto format.
What I want is something like:
./Appname svgfile outfilewithpath
I will give the SVG file as an argument, then my application will convert the object into the respective paths.
Inkscape has a command-line interface. Use the Inkscape man page along with the verb source for reference:
The ObjectToPath verb converts an object to a path:
inkscape filename.svg --select=myobject --verb=ObjectToPath --export-plain-svg=filename_to_path.svg
The export-text-to-path argument converts text nodes to paths:
inkscape filename.svg --export-eps=filename.eps --export-text-to-path
These are related questions on how to run InkScape from Perl, Ruby, PHP or Python:
Using the Inkscape shell from perl
Run inkscape in PHP
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Inkscape Merge Ruby Gem
This is what finally worked for me:
inkscape -f filename.svg --verb EditSelectAll --verb SelectionUnGroup --verb EditSelectAll --verb ObjectToPath --verb FileSave --verb FileQuit
It takes about 9 seconds to run and briefly opens the inkscape gui, which becomes the active application, so it's not ideal, but it's the only answer I could find that actually works.
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I am using pstoedit as a part of a shell script to convert svg to dxf.
When I use pstoedit -psarg '-dNOSAFER' -dt -f 'dxf: -mm' "${epsfile}" "${dxffile}" in script, the result is like the picture below.
But when i use pstoedit -psarg '-dNOSAFER' -dt -f 'dxf_14: -mm' "${epsfile}" "${dxffile}" the result is like the picture below.
See the difference? dxf gives complete lines, but dxf_14 gives small lines not connected. I read pstohedit -help and it mentions to use dxf_14 because it's newer, but I can't if it's going to produce results like this.
I also see a bunch of options specific to dxf_14, but I'm not sure what to use. Can anyone guide me on what switches to use for dxf_14 to get desired result, like the first picture above?
PS. I'm using Inkscape to create svg and then the script converts svg to eps using inkscape cli and the pstoedit is used to convert eps to dxf, if it helps.
PS2. pstoedit version is pstoedit: version 3.74 / DLL interface 108 (built: Oct 31 2019 - release build - g++ 9.2.0 - 64-bit)
How to export a glyph (from its unicode) to SVG with Fontforge command line ?
I also need to specify the font size and keep the original margins it has in the font.
You may have found your answer already, but I just had to do this with the latest build of FontForge. The old answer of this command:
fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export("svg"); endloop;' font.ttf
From a command prompt didn't want to work on Windows10 (I assume a permission issue), but you could give it a try. A quick work-around is to do it via the GUI Execute Script.
Run FontForge (For Windows10 installed in the Program Files (x86) directory, you may need to right-click "run_fontforge.exe" --> Run As Administrator).
Open the font you want to export.
Go to File > Execute Script
Paste: SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export("svg"); endloop;
Select "FF" radial button.
Hit OK
It'll save to the FontForge folder (where run_fontforge.exe is located).
On Windows os (Tested on win10)
this is from inside a BATCH file:
c:\Programs\FontForge\bin\fontforge.exe -lang=ff -c "Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export('%%e_%%f_%%n_%%u.eps'); endloop;" %1
this is directly on the command line:
c:\Programs\FontForge\bin\fontforge.exe -lang=ff -c "Open($1); SelectWorthOutputting(); foreach Export('%e_%f_%n_%u.eps'); endloop;" font-file.ttf
note - the color is not exported. And I don't know if it's unimplemented, or a bug.
I have problem when try to convert SVG to PNG use Inkscape, the SVG file contain custom font that not available in my machine(Linux).
SVG File:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61378613/source_file.svg
Here the command to convert into PNG:
sudo inkscape -z -e result.png -w 3750 -h 7350 -d 3028 source_file.svg
Here there result when use inkscape:
this is the result open in browser:
You need to install the font on the system, inkscape can't guess glyphs shapes of a font it has no access to.
The browser is living in the network, so it cheats by downloading web fonts in the background (and not making them available to other apps, that's web fonts main weakness)
I feel like I must be doing something silly wrong, but I just can't get this to work. This is the command I am running from cmd:
inkscape.com "C:\path\ship.svg" -e --export-png="C:\Path\ship.png" --without-gui
In return, I get:
WARNING: File path "--export-png=C:\path\ship.png" includes directory that doesn't exist.
It does exist. What am I missing?
You should have used either -e or --export-png, not both, since they mean the same thing.
But According to the docs, -e and --export-png are no longer available. You should use -o or --export-filename=FILENAME instead. And still, you can use only one of them since -o is just the shortcut for --export-filename.
inkscape "C:\path\ship.svg" -o "C:\path\ship.png"
or
inkscape "C:\path\ship.svg" --export-filename="C:\path\ship.png"
Just an update for 2021 (it should be typed in oneline - broken down for readability only)
inkscape
--export-width=128
--export-type=png
--export-filename="C:\path\ship.png" "C:\path\build.svg"
or if you want transparent PNGs, add --export-background-opacity=0 to invocation arguments:
inkscape
--export-background-opacity=0
--export-width=128
--export-type=png
--export-filename="C:\path\ship.png" "C:\path\build.svg"
In inkscape version 1.0.2 following command will work:
inkscape --export-type="png" myfile.svg --export-filename=myfile.png
I would like to automatize the inkscape command "simplify path". Concretely, I would like a command line tool which takes a svg-file as input, applies "simplify path" to all paths in the figure and saves a new (smaller) svg-file. Is this possible using inkscape? Is there a free command line tool (I'm using linux) which does the job?
UPDATE:
Since the question/answer is quite old the inkscape command line changed.
inkscape file.svg --batch-process --actions='EditSelectAll;SelectionSimplify;FileSave;FileClose'
Also see comment of Oren Ben-Kiki or Pix answer.
ORIG:
Should be possible:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/CommandLine.html
shows how to call functions of inkscape (called "verbs") from the command line. To get a list of all verbs call inkscape --verb-list on commandline. What you are looking for is SelectionSimplify.
Therefore you have to write a small script that is filtering every id out of the svg and is calling inkscape with the ids. Something like this (optimize all pathes and quit from inkscape at the end)
inkscape filename.svg --verb=EditSelectAll --verb=SelectionSimplify --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose --verb=FileQuit
Extending from Fabian's answer, to control the threshold of the simplification function, I found I needed to make a fake home directory with a minimal preferences file containing my desired threshold. Here is a simple script I just put together.
simplify.sh:
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=$1
THRESHOLD=$2
FAKEHOME=$(mktemp -d)
mkdir -p $FAKEHOME/.config/inkscape
cat > $FAKEHOME/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<inkscape
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
version="1">
<group
id="options">
<group
id="simplifythreshold"
value="${THRESHOLD}" />
</group>
</inkscape>
EOF
# for Inkscape < 1.0
#HOME=$FAKEHOME inkscape $FILENAME --verb=EditSelectAll --verb=SelectionSimplify --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose
# for Inkscape > 1.0
HOME=$FAKEHOME inkscape --with-gui --batch-process $FILENAME --verb='EditSelectAll;SelectionSimplify;FileSave'
#rm -rf $FAKEHOME
Alternative to Inkscape
I've got much better results using SVGO (reduced a file from 2.7 MB to 350 KB).
You may use this online service for individual files: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/