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These are LionKimbro's notes on developing a wiki exporter.
Date: 2004-02-12 Inkscape version: 0.40 Target: Oddmuse
That is, a system so that you can load from and save to a wiki.
The wiki targetted by this exporter is Oddmuse. We have an upload script for it.
I imagine it should be possible to use the Wiki XML-RPC interfaces as well, in the future, though they are usually turned off.
odd_output.inx
This file goes in: /usr/share/inkscape/extensions
<inkscape-extension> <name>Oddwiki Output</name> <id>org.inkscape.output.odd</id> <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">svg2oddmuse.sh</dependency> <output> <extension>.odd</extension> <mimetype>image/x-svgz</mimetype> <filetypename>Oddmuse Wiki POST (*.odd)</filetypename> <filetypetooltip>Oddmuse Wiki proxy (SVG, PNG of Drawing)</filetypetooltip> <dataloss>FALSE</dataloss> </output> <script> <command reldir="extensions">svg2oddmuse.sh</command> <helper_extension>org.inkscape.output.svg.inkscape</helper_extension> </script> </inkscape-extension>
What data am I receiving from Inkscape?
To see what you're getting from Inkscape, create the following script, and call it: svg2oddmuse.sh
#!/bin/bash echo "hello, world" > /tmp/eraseme.txt echo "invocation: $@" echo echo "$1:" cat "$1" echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -" env
It appears that no environment variables are being set. The first (and only) argument is the location of a file in /tmp that contains the Inkscape SVG data.
Now what?
The strategy is this:
- create a directory, representing the wiki
- place a file in the directory, "oddmuse.txt", representing necessary details about the wiki
- when the user saves a file to the directory (.odd extension,) do the following:
- push the SVG to the wiki
- render a PNG, and push the PNG to the wiki
- perhaps append the name of the wikipage containing the SVG to a page on the wiki
We don't have command-line access (bash argument, environment variable) to the filename or directory it was saved in. But we CAN get this data from the Inkscape SVG.
The document has attributes:
- "sodipodi:docbase" -- path up to the save location
- "sodpodi:docname" -- filaname, including extension (".odd", in this case)
Inkscape Export process
- User hits "Save" in "Save As" dialog
- Inkscape writes a file with a random name to /tmp
- Inkscape calls export bash script, with /tmp file as only argument
- Whatever bash outputs to /dev/stdout, Inkscape records to the file chosen by the user.