Add "quiet" option to command line version of Inkscape

[Benjamin Drung]

Binary package hint: inkscape

When running inkscape with a command like "cat foo.svg | inkscape --without-gui -f /dev/stdin -e /home/skipper/Desktop/foo.png", it will output following:

** (inkscape:2996): WARNING **: Format autodetect failed. The file is being opened as SVG.
Background RRGGBBAA: ffffff00
Area 0:0:16:16 exported to 16 x 16 pixels (90 dpi)
Bitmap saved as: /home/skipper/Desktop/gnome-colors/gnome-brave/16x16/places/folder-documents.png

These are all information I do not want to see, because the command is part of a script. There should be an option to suppress all these output.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 26 22:53:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: inkscape 0.47~pre1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: inkscape
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[Pander (pander)]

Has this been fixed meanwhile?

[Jacob Scheib (jrscheib)]

If you modify your preferences.xml (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Preferences_subsystem) to <group
 id="svgoutput"
 usenamedcolors="0"
 numericprecision="2"
 minimumexponent="-2"
 inlineattrs="0"
 indent="0"
 pathstring_format="2"
 forcerepeatcommands="0"
 incorrect_attributes_warn="0"
 incorrect_attributes_remove="0"
 incorrect_style_properties_warn="0"
 incorrect_style_properties_remove="0"
 style_defaults_warn="0"
 style_defaults_remove="0"
 check_on_reading="0"
 check_on_editing="0"
 check_on_writing="0"
 sort_attributes="0" />
this will suppress the warnings in the command line. Ones to note are the _warn attributes. This can also be done in the GUI, but GUI uses ENV variables and command-line does not.

[Lebostein (lebostein)]

Any news after 12 years?
It is possible to use the command line inkscape without any output (quiet)?
In my case inkscape prints while exporting:

>> Exporting only object with id="layer2"; all other objects hidden.
>> Background RRGGBBAA: ffffff00
>> Area 0:0:448:328 exported to 448 x 328 pixels (96 dpi)