Path Save and Load Script for GIMP

trandoductin · **Posted:** Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:38 pm **(#11)**

ofnuts wrote:

Could be done by looking at the SVG file with the xml.eTree library... but why would you need the size of the original image?

Because that's how i can have load methods like RELATIVE (percentage), RELATIVE WIDTH KEEPING ASPECT RATIO and RELATIVE HEIGHT KEEPING ASPECT RATIO. I need the original image's dimensions in order to know how the path sits on the original image in order to apply the same percentage on to the current image (that it's being loaded on).

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4736

Quite simple actually:

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import  xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import sys

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("Usage: %s {svgfile}" % sys.argv[0])
    exit(2)

svgFile=sys.argv[1]
svg=ET.parse(svgFile).getroot()
print '%7.2f %7.2f %s' % (float(svg.attrib['width']),float(svg.attrib['height']),svgFile)

As far as I can tell, xml.etree.ElementTree is part of the Python package distributed with the Windows Gimp version.

In some files, you'll find heigh/width specified as '150px' or '2.4in' or '1200pt' so you may have to be a bit cautious when converting the values. Some files also define a 'viewBox' attribute.

trandoductin · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:48 pm **(#13)**

I did it using the viewBox attribute because i only want to deal with exported path by GIMP. :hehe

Graechan · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:13 am **(#14)**

Trandoductin instead of using the image size could you make use of the bounding box of the current selection if one exists.

mahvin · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2010 **Posts:** 4045

Graechan wrote:

Trandoductin instead of using the image size could you make use of the bounding box of the current selection if one exists.

I like the way you think...

trandoductin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:26 pm **(#16)**

Shhh Graechan.. :hehe

I'll update it soon

trandoductin · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:34 pm **(#17)**

Okay just updated the download link to point to version 3 of script.
Which works on selection bounding box.
It's easy because this script i am calculating the path myself.

But I tried to also apply this to the Import SVG Path with load methods and it's tripping me out i kept getting weird bugs.... i don't know about that one..maybe save it for another day when i am not so tripped out by simple scaling math.

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