Hi All,

New user here, and I've spent an enjoyable last few hours getting to grips with Inkscape. The end use is for me to import into Schaeffer Front Panel Designer software to have a panel engraved with my design.

So far so good, except when I come to try to export my work as a PLT file.

When I try to save my work as plt, I get this



I did try exporting as .plt earlier and it worked, so something's changed.

Pretty much the last operation I did before trying to export to plt was drag in a jpg graphic and resize it. Now examining the error log and seeing something about 'no attribute paths' made me think the jpg probably needed converting into a path.

I did that using 'Trace bitmap', and now when I try to save the file as .plt I just get 'python.exe has stopped'. I also tried to use 'Object to path' but that didn't seem to do anything at all.

Any ideas about what's going on here? What am I doing wrong?!

I'm on Win7 64 bit. Attached is a copy of what I'm working on (in this version I have not attempted to change the .jpg to a path)

Cheers

DD

There were some problems with the flowed texts I guess.
Converted everything to paths and combined them together, then manually deleted from the svg the still existing text related parts.
As the result, it could be saved to plt with no problem.

Amazing! Thanks for your help!

If anyone else comes across this issue, I've had a little experiment and first couldn't implement Lazur's advice.

The key seems to be to group the objects.

So

1 - Select All

2 - Path > Object to path

3 - There weren't any additional text related parts for me to delete at this stage.

Now if I tried to save, I got the same error as in my original post. What I needed to do was

4 - (with everything still selected) Object > Group

Then I was able to save as .plt successfully.