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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 21:19

playing around with Inkscape and my HP pen plotter. it's not really going that well; Inkscape has severe issues with locating the origin, scaling factors, and can't handle things like crosshatching. these are problems that were solved 40 years ago.

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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 21:21

and yes i'm aware of the crosshatch plugin for inkscape, but it hasn't been ported to 1.4 yet.

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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 21:46

OK so i downloaded 1.3 and installed the crosshatch plugin from the plugin manager. this seems normal and expected.

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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 22:00

i removed that "plugin" and manually installed the axidraw extensions. why axidraw? it has a hatch plugin as well! problem: this is what it does.

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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 22:03

you have to turn off "connect nearby ends" because it doesn't do right angle corners for some reason, only smooth swoopy corners.

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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 22:13

holy crap this plotter is lightning fast

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Written by Tube❄️Time on 2024-11-05 at 22:20

it's an HP 7550, probably the fastest pen plotter ever made. 🤯 This is 50cm/sec. it can go to 60cm/sec with a ballpoint rather than a fiber tip pen.

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Written by vxo on 2024-11-05 at 22:23

@tubetime WHOA. I've never seen one that fast before - then again my only pen plotter was the tiny TRS-80 one that took like 6" wide roll paper

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Written by Alaric Snell-Pym on 2024-11-17 at 20:08

@vxo @tubetime was that the one with four pens in a little revolver magazine in the left? I had one of those!

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Written by vxo on 2024-11-17 at 21:04

@kitten_tech @tubetime yep! The little guy that'd draw a square in each of its four colors when it booted up

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Written by Alaric Snell-Pym on 2024-11-17 at 23:02

@vxo @tubetime yesss the memories come flooding back. It had a unique sound, especially as it swapped pens. Clever trick where it ran the head left off the page margin to rotate the pen carrier to the next slot!

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Written by vxo on 2024-11-17 at 23:43

@kitten_tech @tubetime it was almost like someone rapidly, rhythmically clicking a pen a few times

.... which is not far from the truth

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