I have been using Inkscape for awhile and am wanting to download Inkcut. I am using Windows 8. I see that it should appear in the Extensions tab on Inkscape but doesn't appear when downloaded. How do I get it there, can anyone help please? Cheers

Hi.

See this post on how to "install" an extension; viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17515&hilit=install+extension

If you need more help - chime back.
Good Luck
RGDS
Ragnar

Thanks for that info Ragstian. I copied and pasted the downloaded file (Inkcut-1.0.tar.gz) into the Extension folder of Inkscape but it doesn't seem to recognise it and isn't showing on the Extension tab. Do you know of anything else I can do? Thanks.

Hi

The file "Inkcut-1.0.tar.gz" is a zip (compressed) file that has to be unzipped before you copy the content into the extension folder.

Copy the inkcutext1.inx file and the inkut folder to your chosen extension folder

RGDS
Ragnar

Unzip the .tar.gz file, and paste the .inx and .py files in the right directory.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Script_extensions

Hi

Lazur wrote;

Unzip the .tar.gz file, and paste the .inx and .py files in the right directory.
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... extensions

Normally correct, but not this time!
The Inkcut extension consists of an .inx file as normal but it also cantains a folder with neccessary support files (pyserial etc.)
The incut folder consists of:

app folder
consisting of;
bin, config, gui, tests, tmp - folders
__init__.py, main.py files

doc folder - empty
inkcutext.py file
readme file
copying - licence file.

Total number files - 58, folders - 8.

RGDS
Ragnar

Oh ok.
Will keep that in mind if ever getting a cutter machine.
Thank's for pointing it out!

Thanks for all your help but still haven't been able to get Inkcut to work. I have tried Unzipping the file but no luck. Can you download Inkcut as a separate program? Cheers.

Hi.

To my knowledge there are no way to run this standalone without Inkscape.

In order to guide you through the "installation" I need to know:

What operating system on your machine?
Where do you have Inkscape installed?

What's your level of expertice - can you create directories on your machine, can you copy directories (including sub dirs).
Can you edit python or inx files?

When I installed the extension on my system (Win7) the extension came up fine in Inkscape but when running the extension I got an error message about missing pygtk.

To install pygtk see here; http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php" onclick="readonly();return false;"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS" class="postlink">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
Will have to try the extension on my Linux system.

RGDS
Ragnar

Hi This sounds pretty complicated to me but would very much appreciate it if you could try to guide me through it!! I am using Windows 8 and have installed Inkscape in a new program file - C:\Graphics\Inkscape as you suggested. As a starter, where should I download Inkcut to? Cheers

Hi

Download the extension to a temporary folder and unpack it there.

Copy the whole content to your user directory.
On my win7 system this is, C:\Users\Ragnar\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions

The content of the extensions directory after the copy;

inkcutext1.inx - file
inkcut - folder, containing 68 Files, 8 Folders - rightclick the folder and select properties to verify.

RGDS
Ragnar

Hi Many thanks for that info - the extension is now there but the following error message comes up




Traceback (most recent call last):

File "inkcutext.py", line 71, in <module>

effect.affect()

File "C:\Graphics\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkex.py", line 221, in affect

self.effect()

File "inkcutext.py", line 47, in effect

from app.main import InkscapePlugin

File "C:\Graphics\Inkscape\share\extensions\inkcut\app\main.py", line 25, in <module>

import pygtk,sys,os,logging

ImportError: No module named pygtk




When I opened the Inkcut folder it only had 59 files instead of 68 you said should be there.

Regards

Hi.

To install pygtk see earlier post in this thread.

RGDS
Ragnar

hi,
I am very new to inkcut. I've been trying to get it to work but all I am getting now is this:

The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension. Please download and install the latest version from http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/, or install it through your package manager by a command like: sudo apt-get install python-lxml


details:
Module use of python26.dll conflicts with this version of Python.

I'm on Windows 10 with inkcut 1.0, inkscape 0.91. thank you.

You're on Windows? For some reason, I thought that fantastic wrapper error only happened on Mac. Hhmmm....

In any case, this extension is fairly well out of date. There's a new one now, which is already installed in Inkscape 0.92. Or actually, the current stable version is now 0.92.1. Try Extensions menu > Export > Plot