Linux Inkscape Jobcontrol Incompatibility

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Anybody out there use Inkscape on Linux to create their .svg files which they then successfully send to JobControl?

I ask because I arrived at the laser cutter full of excitement the other day hoping to do my first bit of lasering. Opened up my .svg (created on Ubuntu/Linux) and sent it to JobControl only to get a large a4-sized black box (even after clicking the eye icon) where there should have been my doodle. I spent a good while going back and forward, checking various things but couldn’t get it to work. I then tried another .svg file that was on the desktop and that worked fine - there must be something wrong with my file. I opened it up in Illustrator and that sent it to JobControl fine, but when it came to actually lasering it did the engraving (in black), but then didn’t seem to recognise my cut lines (even though I’m positive they were the correct colour). By tracing over my original lines I was able to do some actual cutting but I’m puzzled why JobControl wasn’t correctly interpreting my original drawing - anybody come across something similar? The only thing I can think is that in the file conversion process it has converted the paths strangely (maybe it is not a thin fill between two sets of paths or something).

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Black means JobControl hasn’t found anything special in the file and is just interpreting it as a bitmap to raster engrave.

Why didn’t it find anything special? The lines aren’t in spec for some reason. A few gotchas: is the colour pure RGB blue / red? e.g. 0,0,255. Is the document in RGB colourspace, not CMYK?. Are the lines thin enough?

The tool page for the cutter should have all the info required to create a good document. If the info there is inadequate, we should work through what you’ve hit and fix that.

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I’ve had this and not got to the bottom of it: colours and lines all seemed to be correct. However, opening the same file in Corel Draw and sending to Job Control from there has worked occasionally when Inkscape confounded me.

Not a clear answer. But worth a try?

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Thanks both. I hadn’t thought of CMYK vs RGB, but in Illustrator the colours were the right RGB values to match JobControl. Think I’ll give it another go and see if opening in Corel Draw addresses the problem.

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I’ve never seen this could you send over the file?

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You have to just keep trying if everything is correct. I think it’s a driver / windows 10 issue

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@unknowndomain thanks for offering to take a look at the file, I’ve uploaded it to Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8X8aJxWecw8cVFmQmVVWUtMOTQ/view?usp=sharing , let me know if you spot anything obviously wrong.

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Hi

I use inkscape via Ubuntu. I had the same issues when I first tried using the laser cutter. I resolved this by opening my saved file in inkscape on the desktop of the laser cutter and amending the preferences and adjusting the size of the print so it could read it in the laser cutting software. I hope that makes sense.