a python script to convert a figure assembled in libre office impress to a as-high-as-desired quality png and tiff for publication

release_fig.py

# currently expect the odp to have only 1 slide
# eventually can add the which-slide option as an arg defaulting to 1st
# maybe create external python to loop this one across more files or slides of one file

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Process some fig.')

parser.add_argument('--filename',dest='fname', metavar='fname', type=str, nargs='+',
                    help='relative filename', default='fig')

parser.add_argument('--dpi',dest='dpi', metavar='dpi', type=int, nargs='+',
                    help='resolution in dpi', default=1000)

parser.add_argument('--width',dest='width', metavar='width', type=int, nargs='+',
                    help='width in mm',default=85)

args = parser.parse_args()

print(args)

from subprocess import call, check_output, check_call


print('Calling libreoffice')
cmdlist=['libreoffice','--headless', '--convert-to', 'eps', args.fname+'.odp']
print(" ".join(cmdlist))
check_call(cmdlist)

inches=float(args.width)/25.4
print('args.dpi:', args.dpi)
npixel=int(float(args.dpi[0])*inches)

print('npixel:',npixel)

print('Calling inkscape')
cmdlist=['inkscape', '-z', '-e', args.fname+'.png', '-w', str(npixel), args.fname+'.eps']
print(" ".join(cmdlist))
check_call(cmdlist)

print('Calling imagemagick')
cmdlist=['convert', args.fname+'.png', args.fname+'.tiff']
print(" ".join(cmdlist))
check_call(cmdlist)