Hi Rob
Sorry for being so dumb but just to confirm, when you say "extension" do you mean as in let's say the gimp animation package for gimp? A new menu installed as an option?
That would work fine but would it be wise to co-ordinate a number of odd-ball ideas into a single coherent application that was separate from Inkscape but that could be launched from it.
What I mean to say is, lets say our second App is called oddball-scape. We could add a single menu item to Inkscape "export to oddball-scape".
The data could then be used by oddball-scape for whatever purpose without ruining Inkscape for everyone else with lots of extra options they don't want or risk complicating maintenance of it with multiple add on packages.
Apart from further DXF support we could start another community of people who might want to control their cutters, plotters or even mills and lathes.
Oddball-scape could be developed in parallel.
The fellow with the HPGL plotter has done some nice work, thanks for the link.
-Patrick
Rob Antonishen wrote:
Forgive my naivety, but would it not be best to implement either of these as output extensions, similar to this one for HPGL cutter that someone was working on here: http://www.3x6.nl/inkscape_hpgl/Linux%20inkscape%20save%20as%20HPGL%20file%2...
rather than a a core part of Inkscape?
-Rob A>
On Jan 3, 2008 7:48 PM, Patrick wrote:
I am still a little unsure of the best way to do about this. There are in fact many versions of DXF and we are also talking about GSD. I was also talking about the direct cutter control. All of these things would severally bloat Inkscape and pure illustrators might object. I am not sure what to call it but perhaps this purpose is better served by another application that would be launched from within Inkscape. We could then add all these features by only adding one menu item. =
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