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Inkscape 0.46 is finally out of the door and there are builds for all platforms (well, the important ones) available. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get this little executable into the Win32 builds. If you've read my previous posts you might have an idea what it's all about.

In a nutshell it's a tiny console application, which spawns Inkscape (with the specified arguments) and captures its stdout (default output) and stderr (default error output) streams and redirects it to this console. It also does the same with stdin for good measure. It's sole purpose is direct command line interaction (and determining which actions trigger GTK warnings). If you want to spawn Inkscape from other programs/scripts use inkscape.exe instead.

So, with this little application we get something that behaves like a console build of Inkscape, which means that we actually get some feedback if we're using some command line switches. All that for a mere 21kb. For comparison: a separate Inkscape build would have added another 12.5mb.