SplitSvg

When using together with inkscape, export svg images via “File” -> “Save As” and select “Plain SVG” as file type.

Images are processed in five steps

1. fill and stroke attributes stored in style are extracted and stored directly on the element
2. Colors are converted to lowercase, named colors (e.g. “red”) are converted to hex colors.
3. All fill and stroke colors appearing in the image are collected into a list
4. For each color, a copy of the image is created and all elements with a different color are removed. The image is then saved in a file named color_#abcdef.svg where #abcdef is the color used.
5. If an element has different fill and stroke colors, when exporting the image for one of them, the other is set to none.

Usage: python3 svg.py input.svg

TODOs

Operations

• list colors
• remove color
• remove everything but one color
• split colors into layers

Credits

I copied the list of named colors from the Inkscape extension python modules.