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.



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