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The vinyl cutter will happily take HPGL piped over serial, what you use to make the HPGL is up to personal preference. | The vinyl cutter will happily take HPGL piped over serial, what you use to make the HPGL is up to personal preference. | ||
If you choose to cat an HPGL file directly to the USB serial device, consider adding a carriage return after each semicolon so that you don't buffer overflow the cutter. | |||
'''Protip in vi:''' | |||
<code> | |||
:s/;/;\r/g | |||
</code> | |||
Inkscape can export as HPGL, and has plugins for both Linux/OSX (InkCut) and Windows (Inkscape CAMM-GL) to help fine tune cuts. | Inkscape can export as HPGL, and has plugins for both Linux/OSX (InkCut) and Windows (Inkscape CAMM-GL) to help fine tune cuts. | ||
