problem importing HP-GL

[tyler knosis]

Getting errors like this:

# inkscape stuff/computing/test-files/graphics/HP-GL/inter.hp
stuff/computing/test-files/graphics/HP-GL/inter.hp:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
IN;SP1;CA7;PU3598,4271;PD673,4271,673,7197,;PU3598,4259;PD660,4259,660,7197,;PU6
^

python2/hpgl is installed. Do I need something else?

Inkscape 0.92.2 compiled with GCC 7.1.0 on linux 64 LFS

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

could you attach the .hpgl file for testing purposes?

[Alvin Penner (apenner)]

for hpgl files, it is necessary that the extension must be .hpgl, otherwise Inkscape will not recognize this file as being hpgl.

if you rename one of these files to be something like inter.hpgl, then you should get a disclaimer from the Inkscape extension, like the attached file hpgl.png:

if you do not see this disclaimer then it is quite likely that the Inkscape code for hpgl is not being executed. On Windows, the hpgl code is at:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\share\extensions\hpgl_input.py

[tyler knosis (tyler-knosis)]

OK, so I renamed to test.hpgl, and get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hpgl_input.py", line 54, in <module>
    doc, warnings = myHpglDecoder.getSvg()
  File "/usr/share/inkscape/extensions/hpgl_decoder.py", line 68, in getSvg
    actualLayer = int(command[2:])
ValueError: ('', <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>, ValueError("invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''",))

 probably because python3 is not supported.

[tyler knosis (tyler-knosis)]

I see the disclaimer, and inkscape will open the hpgl file that it created, and not the others.

For the others, renaming to .plt just gives me an "unrecognized file type" from uniconvertor.

[tyler knosis (tyler-knosis)]

Some work, some don't.

Thanks for the help.