Hi...
No promises, but I'm mildly interested in getting inkscape to cut directly to small craft Graphtec plotters on any platform that inkscape is supported on w/o installing additional interpreters like Python or PERL. I know this has been talked about before, but I don't think there are any technical discussions to be found here as to how to do it.
Looking at the inkscape wiki, all I see are plugins that translate between formats. I'm not terribly interested in saving yet another format on my HDD and would prefer just to print to the plotter. However, I'm not sure this is even possible plugin or not.
I assume this is the best inkscape plugin tutorial: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial ...but, as I suspected, this lends it's self to modifying existing Scalable Vector Graphics files. That is, inkscape understands the format it receives back. What happens if the format is foreign to inkscape? Will inkscape still be able to send it to the plotter (i.e. print it)?
Let me know if I'm missing the boat, but, as far as I can tell, what is necessary is to place a " filter / plugin " between inkscape and the plotter. And, apparently, inkscape has no provisions for that.
...thanks