I think I've isolated one cause of "We're sorry, an error occurred while preparing this print"

[chris1]

@ProfessorZ

If it’s a problem with inconsistencies between SVG implementations

I was replying to “how hard is it to apply a transform to a bitmap”, and what I meant was simply that the difficulty of implementing support for SVG transforms on bitmaps is a bit of an unknown since we don’t know the how the code is structured. If they’re using some open-source library, it might even be possible for one of us to contribute a fix.

@ProfessorZ

one approach to reign that in might be to… bypass the need for one by adding a “flip x” button in GFUI?

This has been requested many many times. It usually gets derailed by an argument about the nature of the Glowforge software.

@ProfessorZ

I exit GFUI and go back to Illustrator. Can we address the problem at this phase?

To the point, is it possible to flip my image there without breaking the SVG, or taking a step further back into Photoshop? I’m looking for a “flatten images” command, probably on export.

EDIT: This is the official recommendation from Glowforge. I think I’m allowed to state an opinion if it’s clearly labeled as such, so in my non-factual opinion, method number 1 in the official advice is batsh*t crazy. #2 only addresses Inkscape, so I’ll mention that there’s an equivalent in Illustrator.