[Clipart] [Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Command line options]

[Jon Phillips]

If you guys didn't see this cool feature ted added to Inkscape, I
believe this would solve the issue of resizing canvas to drawing...cool!

Jon

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx>
> To: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> Cc: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Command line options
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:11:55 -0500 (EST)
> 
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 23:30 -0800, Ted Gould wrote:
> >> So I added in some new command line options that are fun.
> >
> > How can you chain them together on the commandline? That would be great
> > to call them in order...
> 
> Of course.  I think that bash limits you to about 32,000 characters on the 
> command line though ;)
> 
> If I remember right, a bunch of the early images submitted to OCAL don't 
> have the canvas size close to the size of the actual drawing.  You should 
> be able to use this to resize all those cavases.  I'm thinking something 
> like:
> 
> find . -iname "*.svg" | xargs -n 5 inkscape --verb=FitCanvasToDrawing 
> --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose
> 
> Notice the '-n 5' on xargs.  Otherwise Inkscape will try and load all the 
> documents at the same time.
> 
>  		--Ted
> 
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