As a guess its plotting a stroke, then plotting a fill. Is the rectangle filled in inkscape? If so try turning it off and trying again.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:37 AM, stuart <stuart@...1754...> wrote:
Aaron Spike wrote:
stuart wrote:
[Bump'ed, word-smith'ed & re-Subject'ed earlier post...]
Hi...
When I make a box in Inkscape and send that off to a plotter it traces it out twice (2 times).
When I create a shape using Autotrace, load it into Inkscape and send that off to a plotter it traces it out once (1 time).
Why?
I don't think we could even guess without the files. How do you send it to the plotter?
Aaron Spike
I use the "Print using PostScript operators" from the Inkscape Print Destination popup and pipe it to a modified Python script (ah - you're probably saying :-)) and send it off to a Graphtec plotter / cutter (a Wishblade - the cheapest Graphtec plotter money can buy).
(Going from Inkscape directly to the Wishblade is really slick BTW.)
But before you dig into that modified Python script, I've attached the postscript output of Inkscape w/a "txt" extension to help avoid confusion (I wanted you to look at it, not print out a postscript file). In it, I think you will see instructions to plot out the square twice!
...thinks that make you go hummmm.
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: inkscape 0.45.1 %%Pages: 1 %%Orientation: Portrait %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 596 842 %%DocumentMedia: plain 596 842 0 () () %%EndComments %%Page: 1 1 0 842 translate 0.8 -0.8 scale 0 0 0 setrgbcolor [] 0 setdash 1 setlinewidth 0 setlinejoin 0 setlinecap gsave [1 0 0 1 0 0] concat gsave 0 0 0 setrgbcolor newpath 91.428574 918.07648 moveto 277.14285 918.07648 lineto 277.14285 963.79076 lineto 91.428574 963.79076 lineto 91.428574 918.07648 lineto closepath fill grestore 0 0 0 setrgbcolor [] 0 setdash 1 setlinewidth 0 setlinejoin 0 setlinecap newpath 91.428574 918.07648 moveto 277.14285 918.07648 lineto 277.14285 963.79076 lineto 91.428574 963.79076 lineto 91.428574 918.07648 lineto closepath stroke grestore showpage %%EOF
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