I need to programmatically offset and expand a path P for a laser cutter. I first add a stroke to path P (adding stroke:"5px";
in the text), then use "stroke to path" to make S (command-line: inkscape --verb StrokeToPath
), concatenate the resulting text with the original path P, select P and S and unite them (inkscape --verb EditSelectAll --verb SelectionUnion
).
Does anyone know of a faster and simpler way?