On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 11:25 -0700, mathog wrote:
Has anybody ever looked into what it would take to make Illustrator plugins work in Inkscape? Presumably there is some sort of Illustrator plugin API, and depending on what it does, it might be possible to build a compatible API into Inkscape.
I don't think it's possible. The API is a C++ kit which means all existing extensions are written a. for the targeted and specific operating system and b. for adobe illustrator.
If it were a scripting language like the photoshop plugins, it'd be possible to support. But with this sort of plugin architecture, it's really not possible to get for instance a windows illustrator plugin running on an Ubuntu inkscape install. In fact I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work for a windows illustrator install too.
I've only spent about an hour looking into this problem though.
Martin Owens