Has anyone used the inkscape generator extension (which does a mailmerge from a spreadsheet, and is from here: http://wiki.colivre.net/Aurium/InkscapeGenerator)? I can't seem to figure out how to make it work, and documentation is scant, so if anyone has had any luck with it I'd love to hear what you did.

Hi

What operating system are you using?
This extension runs on Linux only as it's using a Unix (Linux) shell script file - sh file - generator.sh.

In order to run shell script files on Windows you need to install Cygwin or something similar.

The extension replaces text in svg files, which can be used for mailmerge, it will not do the mailmerge part, you will need added functionality from a script or program to actually send the edited files.

Good luck
RGDS
Ragnar

Thanks, Ragnar. I'm running windows 7, so there's my problem. I'll check out Cygwin.

Hi v1nce

Off topic:
Does someone know Aurium? I asked him (her?) months (years?) ago about the licence of http://wiki.colivre.net/Aurium/WritingI ... Javascript but got no response.

Looks like the page you are referring to is "abandoned". A new blog from same person here; http://softwarelivre.org/aurium

Good Luck
RGDS
Ragnar

Not sure which utilities it's using internally in the shell script as haven't downloaded it...however you should be able to get away with installing unxutils instead of the much more extensive and cygwin. cygwin has an installer and comes with x windows etc etc. unxutils you just unzip into a directory and add that to windows path. Also if inkscape can execute any command script, you could re-write the shell script in something else like perl or php, whatever you're more comfortable with.
With regard to using javascript in extensions...it wouldn't work in this case, because of the javascript security restriction (hard wired) to disallow read/write to local file system. I'd still love to see javascript fully available in inkscape.

This came up again recently here: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=33009

Has anyone used this extension/script successfully in Windows?

(...or any other like it?)

Thx,
TD