Changelog

2024-04apr-18

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • fixed a bug in the output of getSegmentParameters

2022-10oct-01

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • fixed a bug in arc.startEndRadius

  • improved method ellipseArc.centerAngStartAngEnd

2022-08aug-19

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • new method createEmptySVG()

  • new method cleanDefs()

  • the method getPoints() also accepts ‘rectangle’ elements

  • added option [=v2] to siunix import in the latext preamble file.

2022-02feb-19

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • new class ellipseArc with functions to draw arcs of ellipses

  • new method lineStyle.createDashedLinePattern

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • new input argument added to importSVG() method

  • new input argument added to unifyDefs() method

  • fixed a bug in getTransformMatrix() when translation operation has only one argument

  • fixed a bug in getPoints() when the element is ‘use’

2021-09sep-12

Updated latex preamble to comply with SIunitx v2-v3

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • importSVG() now accepts two new arguments

  • new function addAttribute()

2021-04apr-28

Fixed example of the documentation

2021-04apr-25

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • alpha channel support was added to color() class.

  • The following functions have now one additional input argument: color.defined(), color.RGB() color.rgb(), and color.gray()

  • The function color.parseColorPicker() has new output

  • added new function color.val2hex()

2021-04apr-04

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • exportSVG() corrected text encoding when creating empty SVG file.

  • exportSVG() now the blank SVG file will be in px.

  • moveElement() fixed quick return if distance is 0.0

  • getPoints() now it returns a 2D numpy array instead of a list of lists.

  • getBoundingBox() now it returns a 2D numpy array instead of a list.

2021-03mar-20

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • new function arc.threePoints that creates an arc based on 3 points in the arc

  • new function circle.threePoints that creates a circle based on 3 points in the circle

2020-10oct-06

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py and inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • fixed a bug in text.latex that would result in wrong font size.

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • fixed a bug in color.rgb() method.

2020-10oct-02

Important

  • inkscapeMadeEasy is now compatible with 1.0

  • The older version, compatible with inkscape 0.9x is now under the directory 0.9x.

  • latex support now uses an updated version of textext (https://github.com/textext/textext), simplifying installation.

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • getDocumentScale() was renamed as getDocumentScaleFactor

  • scaleElement() Changed scaleY=0.0 to scaleY = None to indicate scaleY=scaleX.

  • blankSVG: new member variable with a string representing a blank svg file

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • arc.startEndRadius and arc.centerAngStartAngEnd now have a new argument, ‘arcType’ that replace and extends the old ‘flagOpen’ argument

  • new function color.rgb() that accepts normalized input color values in the range 0.0-1.0

  • the function marker.createInfLineMarker was renamed as marker.createElipsisMarker

  • the argument ‘fillColor’ of marker.createCrossMarker was removed.

  • the argument ‘strokeColor’ of marker.createElipsisMarker was removed.

inkscapeMadeEasty_Plot.py
  • axis.cartesian

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisX was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisX

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisY was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisY

  • axis.polar

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisR was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisR

  • plot.cartesian

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisX was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisX

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisY was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisY

  • plot.polar

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisR was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisR

  • plot.stem

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisX was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisX

    • the argument ExtraLenghtAxisY was renamed as ExtraLengthAxisY

2020-01jan-12

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Added a new function: importSVG

2020-01jan-11

added LaTeX installation instructions for windows users.

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Now ungroup method returns a list with the elements previously contained in the removed group

2020-01jan-05

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Added a new functions: unifyDefs, getDefsByTag, getDefsById, ungroup

  • Changed the name of getElemAtrib -> getElemAttrib

  • method getPoints also can process <use> nodes

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • Modified text.latex method to try to fix some issues under Windows.

2020-01jan-02

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • Added a new class: cubicBezier

  • Added new option for line.absCoords and line.relCoords. Now it is possible to close the path, connecting the

start and end points.

  • fixed documentation

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Added a new function: exportSVG, getDocumentScale

  • fixed documentation

inkscapeMadeEasy_Plot.py

  • fixed documentation

2019-12dec-29

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Added a new function: getDocumentScale

  • new optional argument for scaleElement function.

2019-12dec-22

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • fixed a bug introduced in my last commit

2019-12dec-17

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • added new function: copyElement

  • fixed documentation

  • reformatted the code using pycharm

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py, inkscapeMadeEasy_Plot.py

  • fixed documentation

  • reformatted the code using pycharm

2019-04apr-04

  • fixed documentation on installation procedure

2018-11nov-14

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • added new functions: getElemFromXpath, getElemAtrib, getDocumentName, getDocumentUnit, getcurrentLayer, unit2userUnit, userUnit2unit, unit2unit

2018-07jul-31

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • added two new functions: getSegmentParameters and getSegmentFromPoints

  • Removed the GUI of the textex module and its dependencies with GUI modules. It might be easier now to run the extensions under Windows/Mac

2017-11nov-19

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • added a function to erase elements: removeElement(element)

  • escaped some backslashes missing in the documentation sections. This caused issues for some users.

2017-08aug-04

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • now text.write() allows multi-line text.

2017-05may-18

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • fixed documentation on predefined color ‘purple’

2017-05may-06

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • added a class and two methods to draw rectangles.

2017-06jun-18

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • fix a bug in getPoints method.

2016-11nov-02

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • fix text.latex() method in case LaTeX support is disabled. There was a bug when angleDeg was different than zero.

2016-11nov-02

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • small modification in text.latex() method to fix incompatibility with temporary diretory under windows.

2016-10oct-31

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py, inkscapeMadeEasy_Plot.py

  • LaTeX support is now optional. See documentation on how to enable/disable it.

2016-10oct-28

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Changes in inkscapeMadeEasy.getPoints() to become compatible with Python 2.6

2016-10oct-12

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • Fix inkscapeMadeEasy.displayMsg() definition.

2016-09sep-21

inkscapeMadeEasy_Base.py

  • New method inkscapeMadeEasy.displayMsg() to show messages to the user

inkscapeMadeEasy_Draw.py

  • New method displayMsg() to show messages to the user

  • Minor documentation changes

inkscapeMadeEasy_Plot.py

  • New method displayMsg() to show messages to the user

  • Changed argument names containing ‘__Mark__’ to ‘__Tick__’ to comply with other plotting packages. Attention: This might break your code.