drawing new stroke within Compiled Gpencil is too big "600 scaled" about latex2blender HOT 11 OPEN

I think I have fixed the issue. Try the new latex2blender.py file on the repository and let me know if it resolves the problem. If it does, I will make a new release. Also, if you want to draw other grease pencil strokes, I recommend making a new grease pencil object because checking the stroke box on the latex grease pencil object will make the imported latex text slightly larger than it really should be because it will have a border comprised of the stroke.

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it's working good thank you, really nice for compile AS grease pencil directly .
one issue is when i use Compilea AS curves and then manually convert it to grease pencil the issue happen for already generated strokes.but ok for new drawing
see video...

comment :
(usage cases : i prefere to compile as curve then convert because i can apply modifiers with great result except built "known issue in blender" but if i use compile as Gpencil directly and a want to apply modifiers like or noise or subdivide or multiple strokes .... the result are inconvinient (or unexpected maybe usable in some cases) but good for build modifier depending on usage cases )
amazing add-ons keep it shining please

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as a hack solution we must scale the layer and not the object so we can draw without problem but remember it's a hack not good solution.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/55538193/178113893-b983493f-9f47-497c-a116-97b80f410d6a.mp4

i wish that you can scale what is exported from the start without needing the scaling thing in order to not worry about reconverting and scaling issues

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can you see this may help resolving https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/44520/why-are-my-svg-imports-so-small

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i have requests if possible(if possible):
--first ......can you make 2 options for "Compile AS Gpencil":

1. the old method .
2. from curve to Gpencil (without convert to mesh then to Gpencil in source code) .
   --Second ... can you make the ability to put (as join) the compilation result into an existed curve or mesh or Gpencil as added to an existed curve or mesh or Gpencil
   those my ultimate hope thanks a lot.

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The reason that the code first converts to mesh before converting to grease pencil is precisely the issue you highlighted in your video above. I am not sure why, but for some reason Blender's conversion from a curve to a grease pencil doesn't seem to behave well. It can fill in holes that shouldn't be there and also distort some features, for example the + sign isn't quite right. If Blender improves the convert from curve to grease pencil function, I am more inclined to create a second option using that function to generate a grease pencil object. However, at the moment because of the issues with this, I am hesitant to add that as an option. I think it might create more problems than benefit. It is also possible that I don't fully understand how the convert curve to grease pencil function works and that there might be some options I am overlooking that create better conversions. If you happen to experiment with this and find something that gets rid of the distortions and doesn't fill holes like the "9" in your video, please let me know.

I am not quite sure what you mean by: --Second ... can you make the ability to put (as join) the compilation result into an existed curve or mesh or Gpencil as added to an existed curve or mesh or Gpencil
those my ultimate hope thanks a lot.

Can you elaborate a bit? Do you mean if you have some existing object x, and say you want to generate new latex text y, then you would like a way to automatically have x and y be joined as the same object upon compile?

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thank you for your quick response,i am not good in english and i'll try my best,
i'm aware of the problem of conversion, for me i can make correction as a user by

1. add holdout fill to make the gap inside 9.
2. for thickness problem, and the issue don't happen if we add a text object => convert to curve => to Gpencil=> the problem don't appear or for curve object so maybe there is a solution for that , and if there is no solution , user solution 2)
   i can apply thickness modifier and assign 0.01 as thickness factor => solved,
3. about '+' i notice that by adding subdividion with 1 level solve the problem, again manual solution
   in fact all this works is a manual work but we will have as i commented before the result that i'm looking for,
   my eager is to use a tip presented in this video for math beauty, if you have time for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Xg1zh6Rck
   and for your question, yes and that will relieve me from redoing the 2) and 3) manual steps for correction because doing it once on one Gpencil object is enough, and automatically the tip in the video will be applied for any new latex added in the exited Gpencil.
   i hope my ideas are clear and also help you in usage cases..
   and last thing which is the more important is to thank you for this addon and for all contributors, really i need to learn python and programmation to help as you did.

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THIS link may help https://docs.blender.org/api/3.2/bpy.ops.object.html#bpy.ops.object.convert

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hi for thickness problem i propose this code from line 310 to 315

        if compile_mode == "grease pencil":
            # Convert to mesh
            # bpy.ops.object.convert(target='MESH')
            # Then convert to grease pencil
            bpy.ops.object.convert(target='GPENCIL', angle=0, thickness=1, seams=True, faces=True, offset=0)
            bpy.ops.object.gpencil_modifier_add(type='GP_THICK')
            bpy.context.object.grease_pencil_modifiers["Thickness"].thickness_factor = 0.01
            bpy.ops.object.gpencil_modifier_apply(modifier="Thickness")

what is needed is the default material must have stroke enabled. in orderto se the result ....

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Hi, @hamzaelbarmaki1994 !

Thank you for the suggestion! Can you please turn this into a pull request? That will make it easier to test the change.

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sorry, i don't know how to do so you can do that for me the code is taken from blender 'info editor' while automate the process

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