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jonah on May 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-...

Hijacking this post a bit, but does anyone know of a library or API service to convert SVGs to PLT (AutoCad Plotter format, based on HPGL) files. I need them to feed to a laser engraver.

I found convertio[o], but it doesn't support SVG embedded fonts so the text defaults to Times.

[0] https://convertio.co/svg-plt/

tyingq on May 21, 2021 | [–]

You would probably have better luck with SVG -> DXF, then open in AutoCad and "plot to file"[1].

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/400...

efortis on May 21, 2021 | [–]

Inkscape does it. Change the text to paths (Path -> Object to Path)

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