Set classes in SVG and generate all variants with CSS

[bobek]

I would like to suggest the following, feel free to close if you don't want to follow this path.

• picking SVG as the only source format (e.g. drop ppt), so there is no ambiguity what to edit
• add class attribute to objects in SVG
• use CSS to generate various variants

For example, this is the text node for one of the Type boxes. As you can see, I've added class="normal_label" attribute. You can do it directly in Inkscape as well.

<text               
   class="normal_label"
   inkscape:label="text125"
   fill="#bfbfbf"   
   font-family="Calibri, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif"
   font-weight="400"
   font-size="24px" 
   transform="translate(838.371,658)"
   id="text125">Type</text>

I can now create PDF or PNG directly from SVG on commandline with rsvg-convert from librsvg2-bin package (on Debian). For example

rsvg-convert -f pdf rust-memory-container-cs.svg > normal.pdf

will generate PDF as in SVG. So it will look like this

But CSS will allow to change attributes based on selectors, such as classes. So if red_labels.css looks like

.normal_label {
  fill: #ff0000;
}

and covert to pdf with

rsvg-convert -f pdf -s red_labels.css rust-memory-container-cs.svg > styled.pdf

[usagi]

It's a nice suggestion. I cannot assign just now, but I'll try the issue to the next "rev.2". Of course PR is welcome if someone try it soon.