Once ShoeBot is installed, you can install the Inkscape Plugin to see it rendered directly to an SVG canvas. Just head here, get a copy and follow the instructions on the README file.

Once installed, simply go to the Effects menu, then Render, then Render Shoebot Script. Type in one of the example scripts (e.g. /usr/share/shoebot/examples/primitives.bot) and click Apply!

If you have compiled Inkscape for the latest and greatest, then a small change is required; if you run SVN-Inkscape from the command line you will see an informative error message displayed in the Terminal output. Change lines 2 and 17 of the render_shoebot_script.inx file to

    <extension:inkscape-extension>
    </extension:inkscape-extension>