#!/usr/bin/env python3 # # Copyright (C) 2020 Ellen Wasboe, ellen@wasbo.net # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. """ Set ids of selected paths to a character in the specified string. Paths a sorted by left bounding box. Id for the path to the left is set to the first character in the string. Intention: to quickly set the correct id of the glyph-paths when using the Custom Stroke Font extension https://github.com/Shriinivas/inkscapestrokefont """ import inkex, re class setGlyphIDs(inkex.EffectExtension): """Set ids of selected paths to a character in the specified string. """ def add_arguments(self, pars): pars.add_argument("--tab", default="setGlyphIDs") pars.add_argument("--characters", default="") def effect(self): if not self.svg.selected: raise inkex.AbortExtension("Please select the glyph paths.") else: if self.options.characters == "": raise inkex.AbortExtension("No characters specified.") else: chars=self.options.characters listChar=list(chars) leftVal=[] i = 0 for id, elem in self.svg.selection.id_dict().items(): leftVal.append(elem.bounding_box().left) elem.set('id','reset'+str(i))#reset all ids to prevent duplicate id problems i+=1 leftVal.sort(key=float) i = 0 for id, elem in self.svg.selection.id_dict().items(): thisLeft=elem.bounding_box().left charNo=leftVal.index(thisLeft) if i < len(listChar): elem.set('id',listChar[charNo]) i+=1 else: break if __name__ == '__main__': setGlyphIDs().run()