Import Path

[hendrikbez]

Is there a script to import more than one path into Gimp

[denzjos]

The question you ask does not clarify what you want to do. From where do you want to import paths ? Do you want to import SVG files as paths ?

[hendrikbez]

(02-17-2022, 12:09 PM)denzjos Wrote: The question you ask does not clarify what you want to do. From where do you want to import paths ? Do you want to import SVG files as paths ?

Ok, did not explain very wel

Want to import *.svg files (about 10) all at once into new cxf project into paths.  Want to import them from my laptop  C:\ drive

[rich2005]

Sounds like a plugin request for Ofnuts.

In the meantime Do you have the vector program Inkscape installed ? This can be used as a workaround although 10 paths ? might not be any quicker.

With a new document, import the paths all at once into inkscape. Then save the inkscape file as a plain svg (not an Inkscape svg)

That single svg imports into the Gimp paths dock and keeps the original paths separate.

[hendrikbez]

(02-17-2022, 01:28 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Sounds like a plugin request for Ofnuts.  

In the meantime Do you have the vector program Inkscape installed ?  This can be used as a workaround although 10 paths ? might not be any quicker.

With a new document, import the paths  all at once into inkscape. Then save the inkscape file as a plain svg (not an Inkscape svg)

That single svg imports into the Gimp paths dock and keeps the original paths separate.

Let me try it

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(02-17-2022, 01:28 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Sounds like a plugin request for Ofnuts.  

In the meantime Do you have the vector program Inkscape installed ?  This can be used as a workaround although 10 paths ? might not be any quicker.

With a new document, import the paths  all at once into inkscape. Then save the inkscape file as a plain svg (not an Inkscape svg)

That single svg imports into the Gimp paths dock and keeps the original paths separate.

I can only import one file at the time with incscape

[nelo]

go to import..
choose your first file, press SHIFT key, choose the last one
ok

[rich2005]

Unfortunately that does not work in the paths dock
Right click - Import Path only one at a time.
also
Open as Layers with the import path enabled does not work either.  Renders the path but no path in the paths dock. Very annoying.  I suppose it is because the Gimp path svg is a very simple format.
 
That Inkscape work-around I suggested is not looking too clever, seems to stack the paths one over the other. Not much use.

In linux command line cat name1.svg name2.svg name3.svg ....nameN.svg > combined.svg  concatenates the files into one svg that works
In Windows (I believe, not tried it) a terminal command  type  name1.svg name2.svg name3.svg ....nameN.svg > combined.svg is the equivalent. Hardley worth the effort for 10 files.

Edit: As an example of linux cat attached 10 files combined to a file new.svg.

[hendrikbez]

(02-17-2022, 02:55 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Unfortunately that does not work in the paths dock
Right click - Import Path only one at a time.
also
Open as Layers with the import path enabled does not work either.  Renders the path but no path in the paths dock. Very annoying.  I suppose it is because the Gimp path svg is a very simple format.
 
That Inkscape work-around I suggested is not looking too clever, seems to stack the paths one over the other. Not much use.

In linux command line cat name1.svg name2.svg name3.svg ....nameN.svg > combined.svg  concatenates the files into one svg that works
In Windows (I believe, not tried it) a terminal command  type  name1.svg name2.svg name3.svg ....nameN.svg > combined.svg is the equivalent. Hardley worth the effort for 10 files.

Edit: As an example of linux cat attached 10 files combined to a file new.svg.

A nee, I using Windows

Ofnuts, Is it possible to do a script for it.

[Ofnuts]

Yes and no. There is an API to import paths. However the script will need a file selector, and the file selector will only accept a single file at a time. The other option is to accept a directory and blindly import all the SVG that it contains. While if you just concatenate the files in a command prompt it works just as well and you can specify the individual files (and if you want to repeat the process, you just re-use the concatenated file).