inkscape-standards

This repo contains some useful files like templates and color palettes to work with lasercut files. Files have to go Inkscape's user directory:

cd ~/.config/inkscape/

Color scheme

Recommended color in case we use svg:style element together with "class" attribute to style an element

Useful mapping

The desired usage for colors

Color	CSS Code	Cutting or Engraving	What type of segments
black	eri1	vector cutting (general)	regular segments
blue	eri2	vector cutting (inside)	regular segments
green	eri3	vector cutting (outside)	regular segments
red	eri4	vector engraving	regular segments
magenta	eri5	vector engraving	slow segments
cyan	eri6	vector cutting	slow segments
yellow	eri7	-- not yet used --	-- reserved --

The CSS for strokes

.eri1 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#000000; /*black*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}
.eri2 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#0000FF; /*blue*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}
.eri3 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#00FF00; /*green*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}
.eri4 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#FF0000; /*red*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}
.eri5 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#FF00FF; /*magenta*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}
.eri6 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#00FFFF; /*cyan*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}
.eri7 {
  fill:none;
  fill-opacity:1;
  stroke:#FFFF00; /*yellow*/
  stroke-opacity:1;
  stroke-width:0.26458333; /*1px*/
  stroke-linecap:round;
  stroke-linejoin:round;
}

HowTo use another directory as user's font directory

Instead of installing each font we need to the default directory, we just can use a symbolic link to a shared dir, which is synced over cloud. This also omits to copy the font files to Inkscape dir. This is useful for a multi computer environment, where every computer should have the same set of recent files. We use Seafile in this example:

#on Kubuntu/Ubuntu we can do:
cd /usr/local/share
sudo su
rmdir fonts #must be empty
ln -sf ~/Seafile/horizon.somebody.com/fonts fonts
chown -H root:staff fonts/

Useful settings in preferences.xml

configurations for Bounding Box, Simplify Path Treshold, Node Tool, Python Interpreter (extensions)

vim ~/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml

  <group
     id="extensions"
     python-interpreter="/home/tomate/.config/inkscape/extensions/mightyscape-1.2/venv/bin/python3

  <group
     id="tools"
     bounding_box="1">

    <eventcontext
       id="nodes"
       selcue="1"
       gradientdrag="1"
       pathflash_enabled="1"
       pathflash_unselected="0"
       pathflash_timeout="500"
       show_handles="1"
       show_outline="1"
       sculpting_profile="1"
       single_node_transform_handles="0"
       show_transform_handles="1"
       live_outline="1"
       live_objects="1"
       show_helperpath="0"
       edit_clipping_paths="1"
       edit_masks="1"
       pathflash_selected="1"
       show_path_direction="1" />

    <group
       id="simplifythreshold"
       value="0.0001" />