On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:17 -0500, Aaron Spike wrote:
Patrick wrote:
I would search for more DXF info including the abandoned project. I would modify the existing DXF export or create a new one. If people were happy with the code it could be integrate into Inkscape and the GUI later.
We'd have to talk to Ted to be sure, but I believe input and output "extensions" are fairly easy to create and easy to add or remove from the core.
Yes, they are :)
I can do further tests with capturing serial communications data on my lab instruments. Once I perfect this I will put the call out to the vinyl cutter owners for assistance. I could then write a vinyl cutter control app in Linux. We could then figure out how to control the App from Inkscape, whether that would be direct integration or something else.
Perhaps somebody familiar with this sort of thing on linux could give us a better idea of how linux does these things.
Well, for doing serial you can generally just write to /dev/ttyS0 and you're good. In general, I'd recommend putting the device specific stuff into a library. Then you can build a client or connect it into other things (like Inkscape) easily.
--Ted