Request for a path coordinates to text plugin

[David Hindle]

Not a bug - a request.

Can someone create a plugin for extracting the coordinates of a selected path as text, to a file? Such a thing exists for illustrator and is provided by Telegraphics.
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/pathtotext
Something similar for inkscape would be excellent.

Many thanks

David Hindle

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related forum topic (including a prototype for an extension which returns path data as text (list of nodes) - the user still has to copy and paste the data into a plain-text editor):
Exporting Nodes Coordinates - InkscapeForum.com:
<http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8826>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> a plugin for extracting the coordinates of a selected path as text

If on the other hand you didn't mean lists of coordinates of the individual nodes of SVG paths, but refer to the x, y position and dimension of the objects themselves: that's already available as command line option:

inkscape --query-all
     Return a comma separated list of id, x, y, w, and h for all objects
     (including SVG file, Layers, and Groups) in file. Each object is on its own line.

<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/CommandLine-Query.html>

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Possibly related feature request:
Bug #373919 “(mutliple) object coordinates to text/clipboard”