# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1582497664 18000 # Node ID 2039f25256fedf25fca1657627fc24dae4a74ade # Parent d972dd60d07d9ee30fc84441edc4014b2145f831 Update diff -r d972dd60d07d -r 2039f25256fe README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Sun Feb 23 14:15:50 2020 -0500 +++ b/README.markdown Sun Feb 23 17:41:04 2020 -0500 @@ -921,3 +921,17 @@ analyzer, and so they mark them as being less confident to account for the calibration process. Signed up for that forum (over bare-ass HTTP, sigh) to get the damn tech note PDF too. + +Dug out the old AxiDraw to play around with +. +First problem: after installing the new AxiDraw version, connecting to the +AxiDraw in Inkscape failed with `Failed to connect to AxiDraw`. Sigh. After +much flailing, it turns out the problem was that something had `pip install`ed +the `serial` module, which is some kind of serialization/deserialization +library, and so `import serial` was importing that instead of pySerial, which is +the serial port communication library that happens to use the module name +`serial` too. Ugh. So `pip uninstall serial; pip install pySerial` fixed that. +Then I tried to get the `Render > Hershey Text` thing working again, but it +just… did nothing at all. Looks like there's a *second* Hershey Text plugin, +this time under the AxiDraw extension menu. I guess I'm supposed to use that +one now? Who knows?