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From: Shay
Subject: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.
Date: 22 Jan 2009 14:38:28
Message: <4978cb34$1@news.povray.org>
I am having some decals made for my bike. Right now, the images consist 
of POV-Ray bezier spline prisms and a ttf I purchased. The former can be 
translated easily enough to a vector format, but I'm not sure about the 
latter. I'd hate to have to open each letter in font forge and manually 
extract the geometry information.

Is there a better way?

  -Shay


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.
Date: 22 Jan 2009 15:25:19
Message: <4978d62e@news.povray.org>
Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> I am having some decals made for my bike. Right now, the images consist 
> of POV-Ray bezier spline prisms and a ttf I purchased. The former can be 
> translated easily enough to a vector format, but I'm not sure about the 
> latter. I'd hate to have to open each letter in font forge and manually 
> extract the geometry information.

> Is there a better way?

  Use the text primitive? It does precisely what you want: Create a prism
using the given ttf file, with the given text characters.

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.
Date: 22 Jan 2009 16:23:56
Message: <4978e3ec$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   Use the text primitive? It does precisely what you want: Create a prism
> using the given ttf file, with the given text characters.
That's exactly what I've done, but the printer is requesting the logos 
in vector (not image) format. I believe there are font formats which are 
equivalent to vector formats, but I want something I can combine with my 
existing vector graphics. That's why I'm asking for prisms.

I have converted prisms to vector graphics in the past.

  -Shay


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.
Date: 22 Jan 2009 18:44:39
Message: <497904e7@news.povray.org>
Shay wrote:
> I am having some decals made for my bike. Right now, the images consist 
> of POV-Ray bezier spline prisms and a ttf I purchased. The former can be 
> translated easily enough to a vector format, but I'm not sure about the 
> latter. I'd hate to have to open each letter in font forge and manually 
> extract the geometry information.
> 
> Is there a better way?
> 
>  -Shay

I'm not sure about your work flow, but you can convert a text object to 
a vector path using Inkscape. Select the text object then go to: Path > 
Object to path.

It sounds like you are trying to recreate a logo you made in POV-Ray. 
You might want to render it first, then use it as a background object 
inside Inkscape so you can position the text. I've done a lot of this 
kind of work with Illustrator.

Sam


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From: Shay
Subject: Re: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.
Date: 22 Jan 2009 21:04:37
Message: <497925b5@news.povray.org>
stbenge wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure about your work flow, but you can convert a text object to 
> a vector path using Inkscape. Select the text object then go to: Path > 
> Object to path.

Perfect. Thank you.

  -Shay


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From: stbenge
Subject: Re: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.
Date: 23 Jan 2009 00:53:33
Message: <49795b5d$1@news.povray.org>
Shay wrote:
> stbenge wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure about your work flow, but you can convert a text object 
>> to a vector path using Inkscape. Select the text object then go to: 
>> Path > Object to path.
> 
> Perfect. Thank you.

Glad I could help.


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