2020. 2. 13. 21:14ㆍ카테고리 없음
64dodge wrote:I thought in the last 5-6 years someone would have a fix for this.Silhouette should have come up with a fix for that. When I come across a problem like that, I usually contact the manufacturer and let them know that Linux users would also like to use their product. But, most of them apparently have as much business as they can handle now and don't want any more customers. I notice that their stuff is available for not just Windows but Mac also, and it couldn't be that tough to make it work on Linux too, Linux and Mac both being Unix-like systems.There are a couple of other possibilities for you: One, you could install Windows in VirtualBox and run the Silhouette software from there, and use Linux for everything else.
Also, in my Googling I found some place that says Silhouette uses a common printer interface language, HPGL or something. It's possible that you could install the drivers for some printer that uses the same interface language, and it might work. You said Mint sees it as a generic USB printer, and if it uses a common printer interface language, it is in fact just that. I just hate getting beat by things like that, so I did a bit more searching.
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People have been able to use Silhouette cutters from Linux. This page tells how somebody did it in Ubuntu 15.10:There is certainly a lot of stuff out there on those cutters and Linux.
You'd think Silhouette would take the hint and support Linux. If it runs on Win and Mac, it should be trivial (for the right person) to port it to Linux. I have a bunch of pages open in my browser right now on this subject. I have read or at least skimmed, all of them, and I would bet that you can use that cutter in Linux, from Silhouete's software (in Wine). Or maybe you would have to use 'Print to File' if Silhouette includes that, then print it from the terminal. You could make a Bash or Python script that would print the file, and put an icon on the desktop for it. That still wouldn't allow doing it directly from Silhouette's software, but it would be pretty close.
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Anyway, here's all the relevant pages I currently have open in my browser, some I probably posted here before, some I'm sure I hadn't seen before:Edit: scroll down to TuxPlot links below first. (Looks like the easy way out.)Contains this statement: Tux Plot runs on modern Debian based Linux distributions and has been extensively tested on Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 and Mint 17.x.(Asking for testers in this thread.)(Their homepage.)Aha! Purchase it here! It's 49 bucks Canadian.