Creating A GUI in Inkscape

Long time no post eh? Busy busy times. The roof of my house is naked and I'm trying to get it covered up, so not much free time. But I was trying this while waiting for a build at work. I still owe you dedicated reader(s) a discussion on some of the production techniques on my new song, but it will be a while.

Anyhow, I fiddled for a year or more with creating QT widgets that display svg drawings of primitives I draw in inkscape. I was trying to do this for rakarrack and at the time it was the best way I could reconcile my infantile GUI knowledge with my infantile art skills (inkscape is manageable for me. You just draw shapes. Its geometry!). I had moderate success, the widgets are functional, (and can be found in my infamous repository) but lacking some significant features, namely, due to QT, no floating point representation in dials. Also I have to manually create a file to dictate what primitive files are used and where they are placed in the window. The svg files are loaded at run time after this descriptor file is parsed allowing for anyone to customize the look, which is kinda cool, but not really necessary. In the end, it was over complicated, and I didn't really like working on it (why I haven't released a single program with a fancy stylized gui yet).

Enter AVTK.

How to Export a Github Wiki to PDFs and/or a Website

I recently needed to forward some documentation for work. This documentation had been done wisely in a wiki in Github. Unfortunately it was an enterprise account and we couldn't just give them a link. I just needed to put the important sections into a pdf or website and send it along.

Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to do it.

After some pain and suffering I got it the way I wanted, and I'm sharing it here so I don't forget.