Hi...

Been talking to Lucille across the pond and understand that people are cutting directly from inkscape to Craft Robo paper cutters using (I believe) the Craft Robo 5.1 software package. As I have not heard anything about this here (support for non standard Graphtec cutter protocols) I assume the Craft Robo 5.1 software package uses a Craft Robo USB driver that identifies and interprets the Post Script output (nuts, should have ask Lucille how inkscape was setup) of inkscape.

Anyhow, if true, this would be great for Craft Robo users.

However, I doubt that Wishblades (North American versions of Craft Robo) cutters will benefit. The old blue and new pink Wishblades identify them selves differently and have not (in the past) worked with the Craft Robo software. Doesn't seam fair as the old blue Wishblades are no longer supported by Xyron going forward into Windows Vista from what I understand. Yeah, I'm going to buy more stuff from Xyron, NOT!

You can still cut from inkscape to a Wishblade but you will need to in Linux, have Python and Glade installed and use that Python script we've talked about here on this list (I'll have to look up the URL if people are interested).

So, are there still people interested in porting that Python script to windows? I've tried, but haven't been able to figure out how to create a USB driver under Windows. From all that I have read, Windows is a real mess when it comes to creating USB drivers (i.e. you can find companies that will do it but they charge $1000s, ouch...)