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Post Norwegian issues
on: January 7, 2016, 21:15
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Very impressed so far with my polargraph. Thank you for creating this. So with the Norwegian... I am was wondering if there was a newer step by step process? I read the steps from three years ago I believe and I followed them only to run into issues where the gondola wasn't wanting to move when I hit trace outline. Which is when I believe it is supposed to move. Anyway, the file that it needs to be saved is a .pbm or a .pgm. I got a little confused on that but the default is .pbm so I'm assuming that's what it needs. The steps I took was,

1. Saved the black and white file as a .pbm (but I converted it online, wasn't sure if that is a problem, because I'm not using Photoshop.)
2. Dropped that file onto the SD card and plugged that badboy into the brain.
3. Set home, and also do we still need an arbitrary image? So I set home, made a selection and then went to roving.
4. Clicked send roving area.
5. Clicked Draw Norwegian.
6. Clicked Trace Outline and nothing happened. Physically.
7. Clicked submit and nothing happened. Physically.

The command is being receive but there just isn't any output. Also I see that you suggest to hit 'c' or 'ctrl c' and when I do that nothing happens.

I might sound a bit scatterbrained but at the moment I'm a little confused and I've tried everything I can come up with.

On the far right I see some timestamps telling me the minimum grid size is 32 which I've tried adjusting that too. And then the pen width was changed to 0.5 mm. Anyway, I hope I am thorough enough to conjure up a solution. Thanks.

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on: January 8, 2016, 09:15
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Unfortunately I recently broke the console output (ctrl-c) so that doesn't do anything any more. If you're running from source, then you can see the console already, but I'm guessing you're not (otherwise you would). (I'll try to get the console reinstated this weekend - I have a plan.)

Doesn't sound scatterbrained at all, this is an excellent report. I think the grid size and pen width messages are red herrings because I'm fairly positive (it's been a while) that the norwegian pixel doesn't refer to those values.

You don't mention explicitly, but I'm guessing you are putting your filename into the "Norwegian pixel" dialog box? On windows at least, this _is_ case-sensitive, if that makes any difference.

Without the console this is pretty opaque, and there's nothing obvious that you're missing as far as I can see.

It could be a file format issue - if you email me (sandy.noble@gmail.com) an example pic I'd be happy to check it, or I can drop you an example image that I know works. The file format stuff is a bit awkward. There was a reason for it being like that at the time, but I'm struggling to remember what it was.

Issued: https://github.com/euphy/polargraphcontroller/issues/8

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