Hi,

Here is an extension to place text on a drawing from a csv file.
This is useful if you want to plot map data etc.

A csv file is needed with 3 columns - x position, y position and text (in that order).
The csv file needs to have the fields separated by commas

Copy the two files into your Inkscape extension folder:
Usually C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions

http://www.maxlivesey.co.uk/maxtest/textfromcsv.py

http://www.maxlivesey.co.uk/maxtest/textfromcsv.inx

Open Inkscape

The extension will be under extensions/text/Text from CSV

You can change the font size.
Also you can choose the plot origin
Bottom - This would plot you data as if the axes origin is in the bottom left corner like a standard graph
Middle - If you are plotting geographical data, co-ordinates of latitude start at 0 on the equator.

I hope this is useful to someone other than me!
I am sure there are other ways to do this with other software and imported, but I wanted to keep the text as text objects rather than paths, so they can be edited as text in Inkscape.

Hi lazygeorge,

I am very interested in using your extension but the download links no longer work. Can you please provide updated links?

Thank you!

It looks like that extension just isn't available anymore. But I found this one: https://github.com/tbekolay/csv_output Does it do what you need?

If not, you can look through all the extensions that are packaged with Inkscape, as well as the extensions listed here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... Extensions
And these: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... Repository

I'm pretty sure there is a more current version of this extension, if that one isn't it. I'm just not sure what it's called.