Running from Command Line - lifelike/countersheetsextension GitHub Wiki

The countersheetsextension can actually run outside of Inkscape from the command-line as a stand-alone script. This also means it can be integrated with many types of build-systems or scripts running to build new versions of all components of a game. This is obviously not for everyone, but it can be good to know that this is possible.

The file that is needed to run the extension is countersheet.py (the inx-file is needed by Inkscape, but not for running the extension stand-alone). Also a python (2.x) interpreter and Inkscape (the inkscape or inkscape.exe binary) must be in the PATH.

The script also depends on a few of the python modules bundled with Inkscape, available in the extensions directory wherever Inkscape is installed. Either add that directory to the PYTHON_PATH environment variable before running the script or copy the required files (for a full list see the file, or just look at the error messages printed when a file is missing and repeat adding files until there are no more errors; not trying to keep an updated list here).

Run countersheets.py –help to get usage instructions. The only mandatory parameter is -d followed by the name of the CSV data-file to use.

The resulting SVG file including the generated sheets is output to standard output from the script.

Example:

python2.7 countersheet.py -d counters.csv counters.svg > countersheets.svg