Saving Plain SVG with viewBox extension

[Strank-users]

This is a small and simple output extension (in Python) that provides for
saving Plain svg, without width and height attributes. Instead it adds a
viewBox.

Such svg files are actually scalable when embedded in websites.

I use this as a stop-gap measure until the standard svg output method
supports options for different width/height viewBox combinations (and
preserveAspectRatio).

(to use: put both files into share/extensions/)

cheers,
stefan

[Strank-users (strank-users)]

Originator: YES

File Added: svg_viewBox_output.inx

[vonHalenbach (lustik)]

Thank you for this extention!

[Martin d'Anjou (point14)]

I uploaded a modification to the extension proposed above. It uses org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape instead or org.inkscape.output.svg.plain. I do not claim to understand how this whole thing works, but I can see that the "plain" format has stores much less information in the file and I wanted to keep that information.

My uploads are called svg_viewBox_output2.inx and svg_viewBox_output2.py so they can be installed without interfering with the other one.

[Martin d'Anjou (point14)]

The second upload.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

The upcoming 0.48 version already (committed yesterday!) has an Optimized SVG output (scour.py) which can replace width and height by a viewbox, almost exactly the same way you did (with some extra tests).
Anyway, thanks for this update and the time spent improving it!