Closed theomega closed 3 years ago
I found out how to provide negative values, it is super hacky though. The problem is you need to prevent click
from interpreting the minus sign as a start of a cmd line parameter. You need to quote the number and add a space before the minus sign.
vpype read LabradorLowPoly.svg pagesize --landscape a4 scaleto 30cm 20cm translate ' -10cm' ' -3cm' frame show -g --unit mm
You put the finger right on vpype's missing piece.
First, for translate (standard Unix way to deal with this): translate -- -10cm -3cm
. The --
notation means "end of options" so what follows is not interpreted as option even though it starts with -
.
Then, a new layout
command will address this issue more elegantly than write --center
, which has many shortcomings as you rightly noticed. See #168. I'm hoping to release vpype with this addition in a matter of days. In the mean time, if you installed with pip you can get it from master:
pip install -U git+https://github.com/abey79/vpype#egg=vpype
If you used the installer, you can download one made from master here: https://github.com/abey79/vpype/suites/1894012677/artifacts/37071956
Side note: if you havent already, consider joining the drawingbots discord server. I'm very often online and available for casual help.
Great, that new branch worked perfectly! Thanks
Lets assume I have the following svg as input: https://gist.github.com/64f4bff934c9059e642806bfe625a03e
How can I center the actual geometry on an A4 paper in landscape before using
write
. Reason for not using write is that I actually want to use the output in the vype-gcode plugin.I tried the following:
vpype read LabradorLowPoly.svg pagesize --landscape a4 scaleto 29cm 19cm frame show -g --unit mm
Which leads to:
Not bad, at least the size matches now, but how can I center this on the page? I checked
translate
but I ran into two issues: a) I don't know how to provide negative offsets b) I would not know which offsets to provideWhat am I missing?