

A template in Inkscape is a regular SVG document such as you create every time launch it. Inkscape is also available for Mac users who prefer to work with the Homebrew and MacPorts environments.

If you are on macOS 10.7 – 10.10, you need to install the older Inkscape 0.92. The current version of Inkscape can be installed on computers running macOS version 10.11 or newer. This is where you copy paste the files for an inkscape extension. config/inkscape/extensions/ on Ubuntu and more than likely on other flavors of linux as well.

py files (foremost inkex.py) which supply you with some basic functionality (like error messages, getting ids of selected elements, etc.) you can build on with your extension, if you write it in Python.Īs of version Inkscape version 0.91 and below, the extensions folder in inkscape is located at ~/. After a restart of Inkscape, the new extension will be available. Copy the files into the directory listed at Edit > Preferences > System: User extensions. To install a new extension, download and unpack the archive file.
