Hi All,

Been searching everywhere for this information: Where the heck the Inkscape 'extensions' folder on a Mac? I have some .py and inx files that are supposed to provide better export of .dxf files (so that I can import vector graphics into Sketchup) but no information is provided on where to put them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mark

Inkscape 0.48
X11 XQuartz 2.3.5
Snow Leopard 10.6.4
MacBook Pro

mpemburn wrote:Where the heck the Inkscape 'extensions' folder on a Mac?

The user extensions folder is in Create the folder if it doesn't exist. I can provide detailed steps if you need more information how to access hidden (dot) folders on OS X.
** This is the recommended location for user-installed extensions that will survive an update of the application.

The shared extensions folder is inside the application (Inkscape.app), in You can access it by right-clicking the application icon of Inkscape and choosing 'Show package contents'.
** User-installed extensions in this location will be lost with the next update of Inkscape (which replaces the self-contained application package).

mpemburn wrote:I have some .py and inx files that are supposed to provide better export of .dxf files

I don't recommend any of the known versions or variations of "(Better) Better DXF Output for Inkscape": the installation instructions on their websites (at least those that I have seen) recommend to install the extension files into the shared extensions folder, ignoring that in this process an essential python library (simpletransform.py), distributed with Inkscape and used by other extensions as well, is overwritten with an older, custom version (IIRC taken from Inkscape 0.46).

If you need layers support, wait for Inkscape 0.48.1 (soon to be released) or use a development snapshot [1] until then. DXF support has seen some important bug fixes and now includes most of the features that had been added in various (older) versions of 'Better DXF' and its descendants.

mpemburn wrote:Snow Leopard 10.6.4

Note that due to bug #482993 , even the third-party extensions for DXF support most likely won't work in Inkscape 0.48.0 on Snow Leopard. This issue has been solved for 0.48.1 and extensions work with current development snapshots [1] too.

[1] Please keep in mind that development snapshots are not stable releases and thus not recommended for production work. Also, depending on the state of the current development branch, some of the daily builds might not work or even run - in this case wait for newer builds or try some older revisions.

Excellent! Thanks so much! Think I'll wait for the 0.48.1 stable release.

Mark