Setting a Score Line OUTSIDE of GFUI - possible?

[evansd2]

@racheles214

The “load-in-file-and-hit-print” kind of ready.

This isn’t supported, sorry.

The best we have to automating things like this is use of colors to set cut/engrave order.

For more info:

Inkscape custom palette generator

So the key to a good GF palette is that your colors must be pretty different from each other, and in ascending hex code order. The colors being different from each other helps you differentiate between them at a glance, the hex codes in ascending order is for the GFUI, it sorts colors from low hex value to high. I built a page that generates a ton of colors and presents them in order, allowing you to click and select colors and fine tune your options to ensure good contrast. To use it, downlo…

It’s worth mentioning that a score is just a low-powered cut. They’re the same thing. You can make this much easier on yourself by using colors and custom settings. Make a “cut” setting at some very low power like 400/15, name it something liker “default score” and it’ll be a score. This saves you a step; you’d only have to click the custom setting called “default score”.

If you get consistent with your color choices (with a custom palette, see above), you can immediately know which step to make a score without even looking.