print out a pdf, from Bonsai, that has a referenced SVG with a <foreignObject> in it?
Does anyone know how to print out a pdf, from Bonsai, that has a referenced SVG with a <foreignObject> in it?
Using the attached file, if the SVG to PDF Command is empty, it prints out the following as a svg...
But if you do something like
SVG to PDF Command = [["inkscape.exe", "svg", "-o", "pdf", "--export-dpi=300"]]
... it doesn't show the referenced svg
From what I can understand Inkscape does not render <foreignObject>.
I tried to headlessly use Firefox and Chrome to do this, but it doesn't seem to work.
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What are you creating the reference in? I assume that the reference itself cannot be opened in Inkscape? Might be easier to change the initial creation of the reference to not use foreignObject, as from a brief search it reads like foreignObject is one of those things that sounded good at the time, but was never fully implemented, and is now just a pain point.
Basically trying to find a workflow pipeline to print out a styled .markdown text to a printed PDF from Bonsai. A pdf, where the resultant text is searchable and selectable.
I vibe coded this bat script that converts a .md to an svg. The only way, i could find to make the resultant text searchable/selectable, in the resultant svg, is to put it in a
<foreignobject>.Currently, if you open the sheet svg in chrome, for example, and print to a pdf, the svg shows up, but when i try to do it headless via Bonsai, it doesn't work... probably missing something obvious.
How does this work in the existing functionality to include spreadsheet tables in drawings? Is this text not selectable/searchable?
Yeah, not 100% sure. In bonsai, there is a obviously a code base that translates a .ODS/.XLS to a SVG, and uses
<text>tags. I think, however, if you'd want to convert an .md file, that has a lot of varied CSS styling, these individual<text>tags would not be enough to style it. Could be wrong.It looks like it wouldn't be toooo difficult to create a markdown to SVG generator, the pillow module can read font metrics for inserting line breaks (CSS formatting beyond font selection would be a problem). Then you can have markdown files with titles, lists etc.. that get included in your drawings.