[Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[Jeffrey Moss <jeff@be...>]

I am using inkscape to convert SVG to PS, but in order to do it I have 
to write to my filesystem and pass filename options into inkscape:

inkscape -f invoice.svg -P invoice.ps

What I want to do is this:

inkscape -f - -P -

STDIN -> inkscape -> STDOUT

Thanks,

-Jeff

[Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[Jeffrey Moss <jeff@be...>]

I am using inkscape to convert SVG to PS, but in order to do it I have 
to write to my filesystem and pass filename options into inkscape:

inkscape -f invoice.svg -P invoice.ps

What I want to do is this:

inkscape -f - -P -

STDIN -> inkscape -> STDOUT

Thanks,

-Jeff

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz@gm...>]

I dont exactly know what you mean/need but  maybe this will help:

Try running this from bash terminal

for i in *.svg;do inkscape -F -P "${i/.svg/.ps}" "$i" ;done

It will create a postscript version of every svg you have in the
directory its executed in.
I came across some bugs when i tested it on chinese text for some
reason.  Will have to check it out again ( usually use batik to
convert to PS / PDF when making books )

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[Jeffrey Moss <jeff@be...>]

Unfortunately this is not what I need. I need to be able to read the SVG 
from STDIN and write the PS to STDOUT.

In other command line utilities you do this by specifying - as the filename.

I figure it'd be easy to implement and hopefully I could do this in the 
next release.

But if anybody does know how to do this currently I'm all ears.  Right 
now I am needlessly writing my SVG to a file in order to process it.

-Jeff

Andy Fitzsimon wrote:
> I dont exactly know what you mean/need but  maybe this will help:
>
> Try running this from bash terminal
>
> for i in *.svg;do inkscape -F -P "${i/.svg/.ps}" "$i" ;done
>
> It will create a postscript version of every svg you have in the
> directory its executed in.
> I came across some bugs when i tested it on chinese text for some
> reason.  Will have to check it out again ( usually use batik to
> convert to PS / PDF when making books )
>

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[Jeffrey Moss <jeff@be...>]

Anybody know who to talk to about this? The command line stuff?

Thanks,

-Jeff

Jeffrey Moss wrote:
> I am using inkscape to convert SVG to PS, but in order to do it I have 
> to write to my filesystem and pass filename options into inkscape:
>
> inkscape -f invoice.svg -P invoice.ps
>
> What I want to do is this:
>
> inkscape -f - -P -
>
> STDIN -> inkscape -> STDOUT
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jeff
>
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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[MenTaLguY <mental@ry...>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:45:35 -0600, Jeffrey Moss <jeff@...> wrote:
> Anybody know who to talk to about this? The command line stuff?

Seems like an okay idea to me.  I think someone just needs to write a patch to implement it.

-mental

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[John Pybus <john@py...>]

Jeffrey Moss wrote:
 > Unfortunately this is not what I need. I need to be able to read the
 > SVG from STDIN and write the PS to STDOUT.
 >
 > In other command line utilities you do this by specifying - as the
 > filename.
 >
 > I figure it'd be easy to implement and hopefully I could do this in
 > the next release.
 >
 > But if anybody does know how to do this currently I'm all ears.  Right
 > now I am needlessly writing my SVG to a file in order to process it.

Have you tried:

... | inkscape -f /dev/fd/0 -P /dev/fd/1 | ...

under bash.  The shell will arrange redirection.  It seems to work for me.

John

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[Jeffrey Moss <jeff@be...>]

Ah! this is what I was looking for. Thanks John.

John Pybus wrote:
> Jeffrey Moss wrote:
>  > Unfortunately this is not what I need. I need to be able to read the
>  > SVG from STDIN and write the PS to STDOUT.
>  >
>  > In other command line utilities you do this by specifying - as the
>  > filename.
>  >
>  > I figure it'd be easy to implement and hopefully I could do this in
>  > the next release.
>  >
>  > But if anybody does know how to do this currently I'm all ears.  Right
>  > now I am needlessly writing my SVG to a file in order to process it.
>
> Have you tried:
>
> ... | inkscape -f /dev/fd/0 -P /dev/fd/1 | ...
>
> under bash.  The shell will arrange redirection.  It seems to work for me.
>
> John
>
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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Input/output filters

[MenTaLguY <mental@ry...>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:56:37 +0100, John Pybus <john@...> wrote:
> Have you tried:
> 
> ... | inkscape -f /dev/fd/0 -P /dev/fd/1 | ...
> 
> under bash.  The shell will arrange redirection.  It seems to work for me.

It is worth noting that /dev/fd is fairly specific to Linux

-mental