I AM SERIOUSLY AT MY WITS END. I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW TO INSTALL AND USE THE ELLIPTICAL BOX GENERATOR.
The Elliptical Box Maker shows in my extenstions but it DOES NOT WORK! I read that the Inkscape_Helper needs to be installed. I have installed this in just about every inkscape folder I can think to install it in but it still isn't working.
Is there anyone who could please walk me through the steps for installing the Inkscape_helper? I have tried everything and STILL can't get this extension to work.
I have never been able to get ANY added extensions to work. The Living Hinge and the Tabbed Box Maker also DO NOT WORK! ALWAYS error messages. With this one I get: "Traceback (most recent call last): File "ell_box.py", line 3, in from inkscape_helper.Coordinate import Coordinate ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'inkscape_helper' "
How do I fix this???
Inkscape has produced nothing but Headaches, frustration, and TONS of wasted hours for me!
It appears that you're using Inkscape v1.0 and it's been my experience that a number of very useful Inkscape extensions will NOT work with the newest version of Inkscape.
Consider to install perhaps v0.92 and try again. I have both versions installed on my Windows 7 machine and use v0.92 when I need to use an extension.
If you just need Inkscape 0.92 for this plugin, I would advise installing a portable version of Inkscape ( which runs from a standalone folder ) and drop the extension into the correct folder in the standalone version.
Extract the contents into the extensions folder - please note that the extensions folder is the folder where Inkscape looks for the .py and .inx files. If you put the extensions into a sub folder - called 'ellipticalbox' or similar - probably won't work.
Anyway, tested both of the above and they work fine.
Beginners' Questions Adding the Elliptical Box Generator to extensions
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Hopefully someone here can help me.
I AM SERIOUSLY AT MY WITS END. I HAVE BEEN TRYING FOR SEVERAL DAYS NOW TO INSTALL AND USE THE ELLIPTICAL BOX GENERATOR.
The Elliptical Box Maker shows in my extenstions but it DOES NOT WORK! I read that the Inkscape_Helper needs to be installed. I have installed this in just about every inkscape folder I can think to install it in but it still isn't working.
Is there anyone who could please walk me through the steps for installing the Inkscape_helper?
I have tried everything and STILL can't get this extension to work.
I have never been able to get ANY added extensions to work. The Living Hinge and the Tabbed Box Maker also DO NOT WORK!
ALWAYS error messages. With this one I get:
"Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ell_box.py", line 3, in
from inkscape_helper.Coordinate import Coordinate
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'inkscape_helper' "
How do I fix this???
Inkscape has produced nothing but Headaches, frustration, and TONS of wasted hours for me!
It appears that you're using Inkscape v1.0 and it's been my experience that a number of very useful Inkscape extensions will NOT work with the newest version of Inkscape.
Consider to install perhaps v0.92 and try again. I have both versions installed on my Windows 7 machine and use v0.92 when I need to use an extension.
Good luck.
From the github page of the extension : https://github.com/BvdP/elliptical-box-maker/releases/tag/v2.0
After a few years of neglect finally there is a V2.0.
This version has no new features, fixes a few bugs and is still not compatible with Inkscape 1.0.
If you just need Inkscape 0.92 for this plugin, I would advise installing a portable version of Inkscape ( which runs from a standalone folder ) and drop the extension into the correct folder in the standalone version.
https://inkscape.org/release/0.92.5/windows/32-bit/
Using the portable version of Inkscape 0.92.5 as above.
Extract and make an extension folder as below
InkscapePortable_0.92.5.paf\Data\settings\extensions
For the Elliptical box maker https://github.com/BvdP/elliptical-box-maker/releases/tag/v2.0 - download from the link that says Source Code (zip)
For the Inkscape helper https://github.com/BvdP/Inkscape_helper/releases/tag/v2.0 download from the link that says Source Code (zip)
Extract the contents into the extensions folder - please note that the extensions folder is the folder where Inkscape looks for the .py and .inx files. If you put the extensions into a sub folder - called 'ellipticalbox' or similar - probably won't work.
Anyway, tested both of the above and they work fine.
So are you saying that when extracting I should change the destination from: C:\Users\Runni\Downloads\elliptical-box-maker-2.0 (4)
To: InkscapePortable_0.92.5.paf\Data\settings\extensions
???
Sorry, but I'm really new to this.