On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM, stuart wrote:
What about the USB drivers? All these plotters / cutters use a USB interface. In Linux I don't think there will be a problem (i.e. we can use the generic USB serial port simulator) unless we want to use the optical pick up on the cutter head (I never find my self using this). However, windows, AFAIK, is a different story. The process to create a USB driver is so convoluted under windows I doubt anyone here has undertook the challenge (someone prove me wrong :)). That leaves the older Wishblades in the dust WRT windows Vista. So, no matter what we do w/inkscape, windows Vista users will, from what I understand, never be able to use their older "blue" Wishblades. Well, unless we re-write the USB driver for Vista.
And having libusb ported to Windows is certainly of no help?
Alexandre