05-14-2019, 09:42 AM
I don't know what a cutting plotter is, but I am familiar with a vinyl cutter. A small hobbyist one. These cutters use vectors. Does the cutting plotter accept svg files? If so, Inkscape is the app to use. If you start with a bitmap it will need to be traced to convert it to vector. Inkscape can do that, or the cutting plotter software might be able to trace bitmaps.
An image like your example needs to be simplified substantially. That probably means manual tracing, not the automatic tracing that Inkscape can do. You also need to know about islands and bridges or you just end up with vinyl confetti.
An image like your example needs to be simplified substantially. That probably means manual tracing, not the automatic tracing that Inkscape can do. You also need to know about islands and bridges or you just end up with vinyl confetti.