FWIW, one used to be able to do this sort of thing in NeXTstep --- one could add an invisible button to a window which would then allow one to capture the PostScript code used to draw the content of the window at the moment the button was presed.

William


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Frédéric Guimont <frederic.guimont@...3414...> wrote:
This is very cool. You can take a screenshot and edit the SVG directly to work on UI designs.

I never saw this coming, amazing.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Jeanmougin" <marc@...3062...>
To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 6:51:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Move to GTK3

Hi,

It is already possible for the gtk3 builds (I used the
"take-vector-screenshot" utility)

Attached is the result for current state.


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On 07/28/2016 07:54 PM, jelle wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> As far as I've understood it is possible to create a snapshot of the UI in
> SVG format once you start using GTK 3.x. It would be a great boon for
> those active in the UI development if there was an SVG version of the UI
> to tinker with, rather than tonnes of bitmaps to cut and paste around.
>
> Can anyone tell me if this is already possible, or are there still
> constraints by the GTK 2.x code? If not, could someone please create a
> snapshot for the UI redevelopment effort in SVG format. That would be
> absolutely awesome for the creation of mock-ups and the actual end product
> alike.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelle
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