I'm acquainted with timewasters place.com, that's what got me started on this trek 8-) Despite careful reading I can't sort out what's going on. Unfortunately, there are lots of potential troublespots. Inkscape 0.48 is fairly old, the port to Raspbian might not be perfect, pl2303 usb-serial adapters...

I'm trying to use Inkscape and Inkcut on a Raspberry Pi 3 to drive an old Graphtec MP3100 plotter. Inkscape is version 0.48 (latest Raspbian distribution), Inkcut is 1.0 with Graphtec support included. The setup works, very erratically, which begs a handful of questions: Is it worthwhile, or even po...