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Import Path - hendrikbez - 02-16-2022
Is there a script to import more than one path into Gimp
RE: Import Path - denzjos - 02-17-2022
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 ?
RE: Import Path - hendrikbez - 02-17-2022
(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
RE: Import Path - rich2005 - 02-17-2022
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.
RE: Import Path - hendrikbez - 02-17-2022
(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
(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
RE: Import Path - nelo - 02-17-2022
go to import..
choose your first file, press SHIFT key, choose the last one
ok
RE: Import Path - rich2005 - 02-17-2022
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.
RE: Import Path - hendrikbez - 02-18-2022
(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.
RE: Import Path - Ofnuts - 02-18-2022
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).