Inkscape droped --file and --export-TYPE= parameter

[theScrabi]

Acording to this issue:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/1244
Inkscape 1.0 (beta) does not accept the --file and --export-TYPE= anymore. Therefore this package is broken if used with a newer inkscape version.
Problem is fedora is already rolling out this version therefore on fedora this package can not be used anymore.

Just run into this very annoying.

[theScrabi]

Apperently what they want one to use in the future are actions:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_Command_Line#Via_actions

[mrpiggi]

I actually did some development for v2.03 and fixed it with #8 but currently I do not have time to go on with development. I will see, what I can do. Maybe I will provide a little patch for v2.02

For now, you can use this workaround

\usepackage{svg}
\makeatletter
\ifdefined\svg@ink@ver\else
  \def\svg@ink@ver{1}% change version to 0 if necessary
  \renewcommand*\svg@ink@cmd[2]{%
    \svg@ink@exe\space"#1.\svg@file@ext"\space%
    --without-gui\space\svg@ink@area\space%
    \ifx\svg@ink@dpi\relax\else--export-dpi=\svg@ink@dpi\space\fi%
    \if@svg@ink@latex--export-latex\space\fi%
    \ifx\svg@ink@opt\@empty\else\svg@ink@opt\space\fi%
    \ifnum\svg@ink@ver<\@ne%
      --export-\svg@ink@format="#2.\svg@ink@format"\space%
    \else%
      --export-type=\svg@ink@format\space%
      --export-file="#2.\svg@ink@format"\space%
    \fi%
  }%
\fi
\makeatother

[theScrabi]

Thank you :)

[fstengel]

Inkscape 1.0rc1 changed things a bit (again). No more --without-gui and --export-file becomes --export-filename. So the patch becomes:

\usepackage{svg}
\makeatletter
\ifdefined\svg@ink@ver\else
  \def\svg@ink@ver{1}% change version to 0 if necessary
  \renewcommand*\svg@ink@cmd[2]{%
    \svg@ink@exe\space"#1.\svg@file@ext"\space%
    \svg@ink@area\space%
    \ifx\svg@ink@dpi\relax\else--export-dpi=\svg@ink@dpi\space\fi%
    \if@svg@ink@latex--export-latex\space\fi%
    \ifx\svg@ink@opt\@empty\else\svg@ink@opt\space\fi%
    \ifnum\svg@ink@ver<\@ne%
      --export-\svg@ink@format="#2.\svg@ink@format"\space%
    \else%
      --export-type=\svg@ink@format\space%
      --export-filename="#2.\svg@ink@format"\space%
    \fi%
  }%
\fi
\makeatother

Thanks again for that precious tool

[mrpiggi]

Thanks for the report. I will adapt package svg as soon as I find some time for this...

[fstengel]

Le 24 avr. 2020 à 14:17, Falk Hanisch ***@***.***> a écrit : Thanks for the report. I will adapt package svg as soon as I find some time for this...

No problem. Lets hope Inkscape's command line options won't change with the final release...

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[jvasile]

I and @kfogel ran into this bug and it looks like inkscape is fairly sanguine about breaking 3rd party tools. This is, after all, a major version release.

Once 1.0 ships and the interface settles, the challenge will be supporting both old and new CLI interfaces. The right answer might be to ship a wrapper script, call that, and have it call inkscape with the correct parameters. We had just started to think about what that might look like when we came here to see who else had encountered the bug and what solutions exist.

Thanks, @mrpiggi and @fstengel for the workarounds.

We've incorporated the workaround as a plugin into our Latex / Jinja templating system. It detects when the workaround is needed and adds it to your latex doc via jinja templating at build time. Thanks again.

[jendrikw]

For detecting the version, inkscape recommends calling inkscape --without-gui (or inkscape -z) and checking the exit code, but I'm not sure how you can do that in latex.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/2416

[mrpiggi]

Detecting version in LaTeX: https://github.com/mrpiggi/svg/blob/develop/source/svg.dtx#L4138

I already did something about this some time ago. I am going to provide a bug fix release until the end of this week.

[mrpiggi]

v2.02f was shipped to CTAN

[mrpiggi]

Inkscape 1.0rc1 changed things a bit (again). No more --without-gui and --export-file becomes --export-filename.

As well as --export-type is implied by the file extension of --export-filename