<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 July 2015 at 11:12, Casey Callendrello <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c1@caseyc.net" target="_blank">c1@caseyc.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Henner,<br>
That's awesome! I know you like to program in raw postscript, but
for the rest of us... <br>
Will programs like Inkscape generate sane postscript? <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess they will. I don't know what happens if you use colors and thick lines or filled areas, so that would need to be explored. I think pstoedit also has options to trace around the edge of filled areas or thick lines. I might explore more of this when using the cutter more.</div><div><br></div><div>Typically though, most vector programs should also be able to output HPGL/1 directly, so that could always be an option when sending it manually with socat; however, the fact that this cutter uses a non-standard scaling (1/1000" instead of 1/40mm) compared to standard HPGL would require some slight scaling when exporting (125 / 127 ~= 0.98425) . HPGL has a scaling option which could be added by manually editing the file, but I think it only accepts integers so is probably not suited.</div><div><br></div><div>So maybe the route via PostScript is still an easier idea (and it is really something any program can output).<br></div><div><br></div><div>-h</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div>
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As for the baud rate, it shouldn't matter at all, since the cutter
supports RTS/CTS (hardware flow control). I suspect the 2400 baud
bit came from someone with their flow control turned off.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 7/30/15 5:22 PM, Henner Zeller wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
<div>So when you are doing precision work that you want to cut
with the Vinyl cutter, you typically don't want to be using
InkScape (which is more helping with artistic things), but
typically use other tools that directly generate PostScript or
similar (personally, I like to write the PostScript directly,
because it is essentially a very comfortable fully featured 2D
programmable CAD program).</div>
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<div>Using that with the vinyl cutter turns out to be easy; it
even works with faster serial line speeds than the InkScape
plugin. Also, much more user friendly, you never have to leave
the comfort of your shell :)</div>
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<div>Updated the wiki</div>
<a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Vinyl" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Vinyl</a><br>
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