import new symbols

Espermaschine · Postby **Espermaschine** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:29 am

im unable to import github octicons

https://octicons.github.com/

copied the svg file into my Inkscape/share/symbols folder

but nothing shows up under symbols

the same with these:
https://github.com/Xaviju/inkscape-open-symbols

what am i doing wrong ?

Postby **brynn** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:00 am

I'm sorry I don't remember your operating system. If Windows, yes, I think that's where they should go. I wonder if they need to be SVG files? Although I guess the ones from Xaviju must be in and SVG file. I'm not sure about the GitHub ones.

Did you close all Inkscape windows and re-open?

Actually, those look like nice collections. I think I'll give it a try too, and I'll let you know my results

ragstian · Postby **ragstian** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:07 am

Hi.

To get these to work I first made a new folder called symbols in my user directory, on my windows machine it is located in C:\Users\ragnar\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\.
the full path to the symbols directory: C:\Users\ragnar\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\symbols

I unzipped the zipfile and copied all the svg files to my new symbols directory. ( the files is not found if in a sub directories )

The content of my symbols directory after copying the files from the unzipped folders:

Postby **brynn** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:15 am

Yes, I was just wondering whether I would need to load those 15 SVG files, which make up the Material whatever set, or if there was a way to install them all at once. The Octicon set is just 1 SVG file.

I had no idea you could just add a folder to your user dir, like that. I thought it would be better to have them there, rather than in Program Files, but the folder wasn't there. I mean, you can't just add any folder you want (to your user dir), right?? Inkscape has to have some recongnition of it, right? How does one know when one can just make a new folder there, or whether they need to put it in the program files?

Edit
The instructions say to put them in the program files (inkscape/share/symbols). That made it even harder to understand how it might work to put them in the user dir files. How do you know which place to put these kind of things.

ragstian · Postby **ragstian** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:24 am

Hi.

brynn, I just followed the instructions on the download page for the symbols.
I keep all my icons, extensions, templates and now symbols in the user directory.
The "beauty" of keeping them there is that when change Inkscape versions I keep all my settings.
Switching from one Inkscape version to another is a ten seconds procedure and consists of renaming two diectories

Postby **brynn** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:35 am

Maybe we saw 2 different download pages. On https://github.com/Xaviju/inkscape-open-symbols

How do I install them?

1 - Grab the icon libraries you need cloning the repo or downloading the ZIP. You can also save the SVG file to your system directly from github.
2 - Copy the file into your inkscape share directoy (typically share/inkscape) under the symbols folder. If its not there, create it.
3 - Open your inkscape. Reload if already open.
4 - Open Symbols from Object > symbols or press Ctrl+Shift+Y

Espermaschine · Postby **Espermaschine** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:15 am

ragstian wrote:Hi.

To get these to work I first made a new folder called symbols in my user directory, on my windows machine it is located in C:\Users\ragnar\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\.
the full path to the symbols directory: C:\Users\ragnar\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\symbols

i didnt know there was a user directory for Inkscape.... :shock:

there is one for Gimp, which is quite nice, as brynn said

so i put the symbols into the folder (C:\Users\Christian\AppData\Roaming\inkscape) just as ragstian said, but its still not showing up :cry:

ragstian · Postby **ragstian** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:27 am

Hi

so i put the symbols into the folder (C:\Users\Christian\AppData\Roaming\inkscape) just as ragstian said,

That's NOT what he said!!

Make a subfolder named symbols in that directory, then copy the symbols to the subfolder you just made

Your directory will then be: C:\Users\Christian\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\symbols

Espermaschine · Postby **Espermaschine** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:37 am

sorry, i copied the wrong path into the reply field

i created the symbols folder just as you said, but its still not showing up

Postby **brynn** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:06 pm

Oh ok, I've got them all!

I'm not sure what to say to help you, Espermachine. It went pretty smoothly for me, and I can't think of any places where you might have gone off track. Maybe just go through the steps again, very slowly, maybe after night's sleep, etc. You probably know your own habits, and the type of missteps you might tend to do.

Let me make a screenshot of my user directory.... Not sure if this will help. It looks like you have some different settings for windows explorer than I do (I don't see the filenames with .svg on the end, for example). But fwiw

: insym.png (68.63 KiB) Viewed 8724 times

Espermaschine · Postby **Espermaschine** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:32 pm

@brynn
could you please post a screenshot of how the new symbols look in your IS menu

i have two lines in the dropdown menu that say 'Unnamed Symbol' but it has no symbols in it

EDIT:
whats also interesting is:
i can open all the default symbol svg files, that came with Inkscape, directly in the program, except the ones i downloaded from github....

Espermaschine · Postby **Espermaschine** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:05 pm

found a video that shows how to install symbols...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaGB0zCdHw

Postby **brynn** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 1:19 pm

Here's the Symbols dialog with all the new icon sets.

Were you able to make it work, with that video?

: symdia.png (62.05 KiB) Viewed 8671 times

whats also interesting is:
i can open all the default symbol svg files, that came with Inkscape, directly in the program, except the ones i downloaded from github....

Do you mean open them separately with Inkscape? Or do you mean open them using the Symbols dialog?

Espermaschine · Postby **Espermaschine** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:07 pm

brynn wrote:Do you mean open them separately with Inkscape? Or do you mean open them using the Symbols dialog?

seperately

thanks for the screenshot, brynn

i still cant get it to work

Postby **brynn** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:08 pm

Ok, I don't usually look at YT videos, because so many are so bad. But I thought I'd look at this one, to see what kind of info you might be using. Anyway, it doesn'st look like it should help you, because it's showing how to make a set for your current document. (Or maybe to eventually make it into a set to share -- I didn't watch the whole thing.)

You extracted the ZIP file, right? Have you tried downloading a fresh file, just in case the first one somehow got corrupted? You didn't save them individually, did you? Because when I save them individually, my file manager (Windows Explorer) says they are invalid SVG files? If you save them individually, maybe you could try downloading the ZIP file, and try that route?

Xaviju · Postby **Xaviju** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 5:07 am

Hi!
I'ḿ the creator of the symbol set. Thanks Brynn for helping and for the video resource, is great!
I am not a Windows user so I am not sure on how to install them on your computer but somebody sent me a pull request to tell me where to install the icons on Windows. I've updated install instructions on github for all platforms in the repo.
There are two options: cloning the repo from command line or downloading them from the ZIP option in github.
Then, copy them. For Windows, the directory appears to be %APPDATA%\Roaming\inkscape\symbols.
After this, close inkscape and reopen it. They should be there. You don't need to copy all symbols, just the ones you want to use.

Remember that your icons should have a .svg extension (not sure if windows is hiding it or it is just not there but in your screenshot there is no extension).
If you are doing it as I read in this thread they should be working. Have you tried downloading the icons againg from github?

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