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The input is a bitmap.

Yes, the plotter cannot lift the pen. This is what it looks like:

https://twitter.com/marekgibney/status/1579054642545438721

The solution you linked to is doing hatching. I also found a tool that does this:

https://github.com/plottertools/hatched

I will probably use that for a first try. If I do more plotting, I would hope to find a more intelligent hatching algorithm, which takes the shape of the areas it fills into account. If none extist, I might even write my own.



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