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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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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OK so i downloaded 1.3 and installed the crosshatch plugin from the plugin manager. this seems normal and expected.
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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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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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holy crap this plotter is lightning fast
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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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@tubetime I miss my 7550. Bought one used in high school, used it all the time.
Even hacked a mechanical pencil into a pen body, and "plotted" my English class homework onto lined notebook paper using a "handwriting" font.
Teacher praised my perfect handwriting. (It was very clearly written in pencil, there was "no way" that could have been printed by computer. 🤣)
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