19Extensions
Most long-lived software projects owe a large part of their success to extensibility. If you manage to attract and keep outside developers with their unique needs, perspectives, and approaches, your software product has acquired good insurance against oblivion. Inkscape's ecosystem of extensions is not very large, but it is an important part of the program's impact. Almost 200 extensions ship with Inkscape 1.0, and you can find many more online.
In this chapter, I first look at extensions from the user perspective. I explain the extensions UI (19.1) and describe, with examples, the notable extensions included with Inkscape (19.2). After that, I put on my developer's hat; I explain the architecture of Inkscape extensions (19.3) and ...
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