Manual Setup

A manual setup will allow you to edit the code while running the extension.

  1. Clone the extension source and update submodule pyembroidery

    git clone https://github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch
cd inkstitch
git submodule init
git submodule update

  2. Python Dependencies

    A few python modules are needed. In some cases this extension uses features that aren’t available in the versions of the modules pre-packaged in distributions, so I recommend installing them directly with pip:

     pip install -r requirements.txt

    Info: You might need to remove wxPython and install a platform specific package (e.g. Debian uses python-wxgtk3.0).

  3. Prepare INX files

     for po in translations/*.po; do lang=${po%.*}; lang=${lang#*_}; mkdir -p locales/$lang/LC_MESSAGES; msgfmt $po -o locales/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/inkstitch.mo; done;
 mkdir inx
 bin/generate-inx-files

  4. Symbolically link into the Inkscape extensions directory

     cd ~/.config/inkscape/extensions
 ln -s /path/to/inkstitch
 for i in inkstitch/inx/inkstitch_*.inx; do ln -s $i; done
 ln -s inkstitch/inkstitch.py

  5. Run Inkscape.

Info: Changes to the Python code take effect the next time the extension is run. Changes to the extension description files (*.inx) take effect the next time Inkscape is restarted.

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