I have an SVG queue with 190,000 lines, and would like to use the optimizer, but am not sure how to run my queue through the optimizer. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, Sandy - thank you for posting instructions on how to use the Optimizer. However, as usual, I have to be led by the hand. As you can see from the attached screenshot, I did what you said (I think), but the word "python" appeared to cause a problem. Then I tried again, leaving out the word "python". This seemed to help, as the optimizer apparently did some optimizing, as evidenced by the subsequent result. However, it apparently ran into a problem somewhere, and although it produced a file named cat3_2.txt, there is nothing on it. Any idea what the problem is? https://www.flickr.com/photos/stereoeric/16072690072/

Hey thanks for giving it a shot, I wonder if it's a python 3 vs python 2 thing? I've got python 2.7 installed and there are sometimes some odd differences between 2 and 3.

I'm not sure from looking at the code whether the float is the result of the the division or not, but I'd guess that it would get coerced into being an int anyway. You could try modifying line 44 in process.py so it casts the result to int:

for i in range(0, len(glyphs), int(len(glyphs) / 15)):

Does anyone want to send me their command queue and let me try here on my machine?

You could also try processing the sample map.txt that is included with the optimizer - see if that makes the same error.

sn

I tried running stereoeric's queue through on my install (Python 2.7), and it optimised successfully, so I think it is a Python2 vs Python3 issue. There's some subtle differences between the two versions, and I don't have the experience to see the issue immediately. In the immediate, the solution is to install Python2 instead of 3, and I'll try to have a look at porting this to 3.x.

sn

Hi,
Came across this older thread trying to get the optimizer to work but I must be missing something and have some basic questions.

Okay so I have Python 2.7.10 downloaded and installed in my programmes and also the optimizer files downloaded and extracted into their own folder. Firstly do I need to copy the optimizer files into the Python programme folders and if so where do they need to be copied across to please?

To produce the command queue I've setup the Polargraph with the SVG imported and hit draw vector to produce the queue before quickly pausing the machine. Then save as from the queue menu as a text file (export queue doesn't seem to be giving me a txt file). Is there a way of exporting the queue without having to start and pause the drawing or is this the right approach?

Where then does this text file need to be placed for Python to see it and do the optimising? Does it need to be placed into the Python folder directly or how can I steer it in the direction of another folder location?

Thanks for any help.

IIRC, installing Python 2.7 for Windows doesn't automatically create the environment variable necessary to run scripts from everywhere (at least it didn't back when I installed it).
For help with that, see:
http://www.pythoncentral.io/add-python-to-path-python-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/