diacritica/inkscape-placeholder

Inkscape Placeholder

Embed image placeholders with custom height and width into Inkscape:

Beautiful Image backgrounds from unsplash
Random User avatars from uifaces

How it works

Find 'Add Placeholder' extension under the extensions menu in the top bar

Unsplash: Add a image background from unsplash

Choose Unsplash...
Select the desired image width and height

Apply and wait a few seconds and a beautiful random image will be loaded into your work area

Add Avatar: Add a user avatar from uifaces

Choose Add avatar...
Choose the desired avatar size from the available in the dropdown

Apply and wait a few seconds and a random user avatar will be loaded into your work area

Motivation

For designers, it is very useful to add image placeholders to their designs to see how the design could look and how image fits in space.
It is also useful to help clients see a temporary image that could help them understand better how a design will look in the future.

Installation

Background placehoders: Copy the files unsplash.py and unsplash.inx into your extensions local directory Avatar placehoders: Copy the files uifaces.py and uifaces.inx into your extensions local directory In linux

~/.config/inkscape/extensions

Contributors

How to create your own plugin

Inkscape extensions by non developers, for non developers. A primer.

diacritica / inkscape-placeholder