Guillotine inkscape extension
Well – this is my first inkscape extension, it’s a direct copy of the GIMP extension of the same name (under Image->Transform). It is designed to take an image that has had some guides dragged onto it, then slice it up into the rectangles that are formed by those guides. It should ignore guides that lie outside the canvas area, and it should ignore angled guides.
I’m sure it will need more work if and when more people start testing it, but it should be usable as is. Please give it a try and feel free to leave any feedback.
It would be nice to one day see it as part of inkscape proper, but I don’t know the process involved (or if there’s even any demand for this extension – there are similar but slightly different extensions floating around).
So – here’s how you use it:
- Download the latest guillotine version, and unzip it into your inkscape extensions directory
- Open your drawing in inkscape.
- Drag some vertical and horizontal guides onto your drawing
- Select Export->Guillotine from the Inkscape menu
- Enter a directory name and image base name for output (e.g. output will become output1.png, output2.png, etc.)
- (optional) If you’ve previously exported the drawing, you can tick the box to use export hints as the output values.
- Press Apply
Enjoy!
Worked pretty well. Thank-you.
heathenx
16 Aug 10 at 14:49
No problem. Thanks for dropping by – I’ve enjoyed your video tutorials in the past too – thanks for those!
craig
16 Aug 10 at 14:52
Wow thanks for this. I really appreciate people like you who go out of their way to make the lives of others easier… You guys are taken for granted far too often. How long have you been programming by the way, and what steps did you take to make a plugin?
Again thank you..
Duncan
21 Apr 11 at 10:20