SVGTOIPE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

svgtoipe — bestie, this is the lil glow-up machine that converts a SVG file to Ipe 7 format 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

svgtoipe [-h] [-c] figure.svg [figure.ipe]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so real talk: svgtoipe takes a SVG file and turns it into an XML file that Ipe version 7 actually understands. It's giving translator, it's giving bilingual icon, it's giving your vector art speaks Ipe now ✨

Now the part where you don't name your output file (we've all been there, no shame 🫶): if you don't specify the output filename, it gets derived for you — either by

• replacing .ipe at the end of the input filename with .svg, or
• appending .ipe if the input filename does not end with with .svg

And here's a cute lil trick 👀 — if either the input or the output filename is --, then stdin, resp. stdout, is used to read or write data. Pipes? We love pipes. Pipes are the moment.

So the options, bestie:

• -h — display a short help text. Short. Help. Iconic behaviour honestly.
• -c — operate in clipboard mode. Data is output as ipe clipboard content. This allows pasting svg data from inkscape to ipe, and the whole ritual goes like this:
  1. Copy elements Inkscape to clipboard
  2. run: xsel | ./svgtoipe.py -c -- | xsel -i
  3. paste clipboard content into ipe

Not me casually pasting Inkscape art straight into Ipe like it's nothing 💅

🎀 Supported SVG Features 🎀

The following SVG elements are converted: path, image, rect, circle, ellipse, line, polygon, and polyline

The following SVG elements are converted: group, clipPath, linearGradient, and andradialGradient

Now the caveats, because there are always caveats 😭

• Image conversion is only supported if python-imaging is available.
• Text is only converted, if it has coordinates specified as attribute of the svg text element.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Otfried Cheong Christian Kapeller

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ipe(1)

And that's the whole page, bestie — this one's from the Ipe manual, dated April 2015, and honestly it ate. Slay, stay converted, mwah 💖🧚‍♀️