#!/usr/bin/env python ''' Copyright (C) 2011 Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA ''' import inkex import sys class NewGlyphLayer(inkex.Effect): def __init__(self): inkex.Effect.__init__(self) self.OptionParser.add_option("-u", "--unicodechars", action="store", type="string", dest="unicodechars", default='', help="Unicode chars") def effect(self): # Get all the options unicode_chars = self.options.unicodechars #TODO: remove duplicate chars # Get access to main SVG document element svg = self.document.getroot() for char in unicode_chars: # Create a new layer. layer = inkex.etree.SubElement(svg, 'g') layer.set(inkex.addNS('label', 'inkscape'), 'GlyphLayer-'+char) layer.set(inkex.addNS('groupmode', 'inkscape'), 'layer') layer.set('style', 'display:none') #initially not visible #TODO: make it optional ("Use current selection as template glyph") # Move selection to the newly created layer for id,node in self.selected.iteritems(): layer.append(node) if __name__ == '__main__': e = NewGlyphLayer() e.affect()