I am a really old lady using Inkscape version 1.4 to create longarm quilting motifs in gcode from PDF files on an HP Pavilion laptop using Windows 10.

I had one success..then tragedy. The new file produces a "Deprecation error" which does not write anything to the output file except a start and stop...(text below)

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(Header)
(Generated by gcodetools from Inkscape.)
(Using default header. To add your own header create file "header" in the output dir.)
M3
(Header end.)
G21 (All units in mm)

(Footer)
M5
G00 X0.0000 Y0.0000
M2
(Using default footer. To add your own footer create file "footer" in the output dir.)
(end)
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Yet I can see the blue gcode on the screen. I have hit the "reset preferences" but the issue persists. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong??