#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Extension for InkScape 1.0+ boxes.py wrapper script to make it work on Windows and Linux systems without duplicating .inx files Author: Mario Voigt / FabLab Chemnitz Mail: mario.voigt@stadtfabrikanten.org Date: 27.04.2021 Last patch: 27.04.2021 License: GNU GPL v3 """ import inkex import sys import os from lxml import etree class boxesPyWrapper(inkex.GenerateExtension): def add_arguments(self, pars): args = sys.argv[1:] for arg in args: key=arg.split("=")[0] if len(arg.split("=")) == 2: value=arg.split("=")[1] try: pars.add_argument(key, default=key) except: pass #ignore duplicate id arg def generate(self): box_file = "box.svg" if os.path.exists(box_file): os.remove(box_file) #remove previously generated box file at the beginning cmd = "boxes" #boxes.exe in this local dir (or if present in %PATH%), or boxes from $PATH in linux for arg in vars(self.options): if arg != "output" and arg != "ids" and arg != "selected_nodes": #inkex.utils.debug(str(arg) + " = " + str(getattr(self.options, arg))) #fix behaviour of "original" arg which does not correctly gets interpreted if set to false if arg == "original" and str(getattr(self.options, arg)) == "false": continue if arg in ("input_file", "tab"): continue else: cmd += " --" + arg + " " + str(getattr(self.options, arg)) cmd += " --output " + box_file + " " + box_file #we need to add box_file string twice in a row. Otherwise program executable throws an error cmd = cmd.replace("boxes --generator", "boxes") # run boxes with the parameters provided with os.popen(cmd, "r") as boxes: result = boxes.read() # check output existence try: stream = open(box_file, 'r') except FileNotFoundError as e: inkex.utils.debug("There was no " + box_file + " output generated. Cannot continue. Command was:") inkex.utils.debug(str(cmd)) exit(1) # write the generated SVG into Inkscape's canvas p = etree.XMLParser(huge_tree=True) doc = etree.parse(stream, parser=etree.XMLParser(huge_tree=True)) stream.close() if os.path.exists(box_file): os.remove(box_file) #remove previously generated box file at the end too group = inkex.Group(id="boxes.py") for element in doc.getroot(): group.append(element) return group if __name__ == '__main__': boxesPyWrapper().run()