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How an extension must work and how to write an INX file.
This page previously contained information on the *.inx file format. The information is now found at [https://inkscape.gitlab.io/extensions/documentation/authors/inx-overview.html the extensions documentation].
 
== About the Inkscape Extension Interface ==
 
The inkscape call a program with some arguments and as the last argumet it tells to the extension program where is the temporay SVG file to do the work. The temporay SVG file represents the actual state of the working SVG.
 
After the extension program work it writes the modified SVG to the default output, the Inkscape get this and update the SVG for the user.
 
== How to Write an INX File ==
 
'''Example:'''
  <inkscape-extension>
    <_name>{Friendly Extension Name}</_name>
    <id>{org.domain.sub-domain.extension-name}</id>
      <dependency type="executable"
                  location="[extensions|{location}]">program.ext</dependency>
      <param name="{argumentName}" type="[int|float|string]"
            min="{number}" max="{number}"
            _gui-text="{Friendly Argument Name}">{default value}</param>
    <effect>
      <object-type>[all|{element type}]</object-type>
        <effects-menu>
          <submenu _name="{Extension Group Name}"/>
        </effects-menu>
    </effect>
    <script>
      <command reldir="extensions"
              interpreter="[python|perl|bash|{some other}]">program.ext</command>
    </script>
  </inkscape-extension>
 
== See Also ==
[[ScriptingHOWTO]]
 
[[Category:Developer Documentation]]
[[Category:Developer Documentation]]
[[Category:Help Wanted]]
[[Category:Help Wanted]]
[[Category:Extensions]]
[[Category:Extensions]]

Latest revision as of 20:12, 10 March 2022

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