[Lab] Laser Cutting from InkScape and Combined Raster/Vector printing

[Marinus Swanepoel]

I would suggest designs made in Inkscape be saved as PDF and then sent to
the laser engraver with Sumatra PDF. I struggled for several hours using
Inkscape and Acrobat with no results before finding this combination that
works perfectly for me.

Marinus Swanepoel

Interactive Multimedia Developer
613.915.0027
www.noweverywhere.ca



On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Henri Kuschkowitz <
henri.kuschkowitz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Been there, done that. Britta finally solved my issue. Inkscape has a
> crappy driver (?) and will not probably recognize/differentiate between the
> two types (raster and vector). so you will have to print the pdf separately
> as far as i know.
>
> Maybe someone else actually solved this?
>
> HK
>
> On Dec 16, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Janick Bergeron <janick at bergeron.com> wrote:
>
> > 1) Has anyone had success printing to the Epilog directly from InkScape?
> If I do, the job always shows up as "none". Saving as PDF then printing the
> PDF works fine, but this extra step is annoying.
> >
> > 2) I was trying to print a combined raster/vector job and, for the life
> of me, could not get the vectors to cut even though my line widths where
> set to 0.001". It seemed related to the fact that I was using 100 DPI, but
> the fourth table here (http://www.epiloglaser.com/tl-line-weights.htm)
> says it should have worked. I ended up doing it as two separate jobs: one
> raster at 100 DPI and one vector as 500 DPI. Anyone else had better luck
> with combined jobs?
> >
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