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InkScape vector cutting problem

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Revision as of 11:32, 2012 November 9 by Ttenbergen (talk | contribs)

Laser Cutting engraving (ie. rasters) from Inkscape works, but cutting (ie vectors) doesn't work natively; the laser cutter goes straight to "done" without ever moving.

Found a reference somewhere that this has to do with the printer driver subsystem. (reference?)

Work-around

  • set stroke style width to 0.01px (or 0.2mm)
  • File menu, save-as, pdf
    • check "convert text-to-paths"
  • save
  • open PDF file
  • uncheck "Choose paper source by PDF page size" to preserve document size
  • print as usual

possible fix?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/630639

Validate

Should really validate that the sizes stay right when this is done. Will do as part of vernier clock. Template:TD Possum Lodge

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