#!/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., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
'''
import inkex
import sys
import locale
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")
self.encoding = sys.stdin.encoding
if self.encoding == 'cp0' or self.encoding is None:
self.encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
def effect(self):
# Get all the options
unicode_chars = self.options.unicodechars.decode(self.encoding)
#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'), u'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()