DESCRIPTION

svgtune is just a little helper to generate a set of .svg files out of a single .svg file, by tuning respective groups/layers visibility, transparency or anything else.

It might come very handy for generation of incremental figures to be embedded into the presentation. For the input, this takes a single command line parameter -- file with instructions, which might look like:

# Load the file we should use
%file somefigure.svg

# Make all layers invisible
layers style=display:none
# Store current state into 0_blank file
%save 0_blank

layer label=elements style=display:inline
%save 1

layer id=layer2 style=display:inline
%save 1_3

# Lets make some group visible
g id=g14546 style=display:inline
%save 1_3

You can match elements either by 'id' or 'label', or use python regular expressions to match sets of those:

layer label:re=^base.* style=display:inline

COMMAND LINE

See ./svgtune --help for more information on command line parameters.

OUTPUT

For the results, look under somefigure_tuned/ directory.

Helpers

You might make advantage of having following in your Makefile, so you get automatic 'tuning' and rendering of 'pdf' and 'eps' of your .svg's for easy embedding them into your publications:

all:: pics

# For every .svg we must have a pdf
PICS=$(shell find . -iname \*svg | sed -e 's/svg/pdf/g')
SVGIS=$(shell /bin/ls *.svgtune | sed -e 's/.svgtune/_tuned/g')

FMAKE := $(MAKE) -s -f $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))

pics: $(SVGIS) $(PICS)

clean::
      for p in *.svg; do rm -f $${p%*.svg}.{pdf,eps}; done

ignore-%:
      @grep -q "^$*$$" .gitignore || { \
        echo "$*" >> .gitignore; echo "Ignore $@"; }

%_tuned: %.svgtune ignore-%_tuned
      @echo "Tuning SVG using $<"
      @svgtune $<

%.pdf: %.svg ignore-%.pdf
      @echo "Rendering $@"
      @inkscape -z -f "$<" -A "$@"

%.eps: %.svg ignore-%.eps
      @echo "Rendering $@"
      @inkscape -z -T -f "$<" -E "$@"