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Was wondering if anyone knew of some software or (nowadays) a website that would
take text and reliably convert it (in the chosen font) to discrete SVG objects.
Either that, or explain how to make use of these "SVG fonts" I've seen
mentioned,
or how to use the font file itself to sort of directly create an SVG object.
The end of my work flow is usually SVG ---> DXF ----> import to proprietary
software, and the text never seems to "make it through", and the proprietary
software seems to handle text horribly.
Thanks!
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On 2/28/2016 9:27 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Was wondering if anyone knew of some software or (nowadays) a website that would
> take text and reliably convert it (in the chosen font) to discrete SVG objects.
> Either that, or explain how to make use of these "SVG fonts" I've seen
> mentioned,
> or how to use the font file itself to sort of directly create an SVG object.
>
> The end of my work flow is usually SVG ---> DXF ----> import to proprietary
> software, and the text never seems to "make it through", and the proprietary
> software seems to handle text horribly.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
Have you tried InkScape? That might work for you.
Mike
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Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> Have you tried InkScape? That might work for you.
Thanks Mike.
Naturally, I have tried InkScape, and for some reason either it doesn't work, or
I'm doing it wrong.
Still learning, so probably the latter ;)
Anything specific you suggest that I try?
Assume I know absolutely nothing.
LaserCAD just gives me empty "bounding boxes" instead of text when I import the
DXF that I export from InkScape. :(
I'd love to be writing directly to DXF from Visio (or POV-Ray :D) , but that
doesn't seem to work too well if at all.
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Le 29/02/2016 03:27, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> Was wondering if anyone knew of some software or (nowadays) a website that would
> take text and reliably convert it (in the chosen font) to discrete SVG objects.
> Either that, or explain how to make use of these "SVG fonts" I've seen
> mentioned,
> or how to use the font file itself to sort of directly create an SVG object.
>
> The end of my work flow is usually SVG ---> DXF ----> import to proprietary
> software, and the text never seems to "make it through", and the proprietary
> software seems to handle text horribly.
the SVG syntax (it's text... or rather xml, which is text) is rather
simple, if all you need is a unformatted text (aka single line) it can
be as simple as using a template and performing substitution of the text
in it.
The more complicated issue is giving the right dimension to the
container. Height for a single line can be easy, but width for a
non-mono font is going to be complex.
http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_text.asp
http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/text-element.html
https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html
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Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
Sorry, I think you misunderstood my goal / intent.
What I want to do is take "text" and convert it into a "drawing" - a line, or a
path, or whatever would make it not a "font" or "typeface", but an outline of
the glyph.
Text, as such, does not seem to make it through the SVG to DXF to import
sequence, and so I need to find a way to get the letters to show up anyway.
Thanks :)
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Le 01/03/2016 00:35, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I think you misunderstood my goal / intent.
>
> What I want to do is take "text" and convert it into a "drawing" - a line, or a
> path, or whatever would make it not a "font" or "typeface", but an outline of
> the glyph.
>
> Text, as such, does not seem to make it through the SVG to DXF to import
> sequence, and so I need to find a way to get the letters to show up anyway.
>
Have you tried : https://cloudconvert.com/svg-to-dxf ?
They claims to support text in svg, and svgfont is just a way to specify
exactly the glyph inside the svg instead of using a third party font and
format (such as ttf or other)
Now, if you want to replace a filled drawing of a glyph with only its
boundary, that's another problem.
I wonder if fontforge is able to load or import svgfont... seems to:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FontForge
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On 2/29/2016 6:35 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I think you misunderstood my goal / intent.
>
> What I want to do is take "text" and convert it into a "drawing" - a line, or a
> path, or whatever would make it not a "font" or "typeface", but an outline of
> the glyph.
>
> Text, as such, does not seem to make it through the SVG to DXF to import
> sequence, and so I need to find a way to get the letters to show up anyway.
>
> Thanks :)
>
>
>
In Inkscape, yo can select a piece of text, and use the Object to Path
command to turn it into non-text.
Mike
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On 3/1/2016 12:16 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
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> In Inkscape, yo can select a piece of text, and use the Object to Path
> command to turn it into non-text.
And Blender can mesh-ify it.
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> On 3/1/2016 12:16 PM, Mike Horvath wrote:
> > In Inkscape, yo can select a piece of text, and use the Object to Path
> > command to turn it into non-text.
> And Blender can mesh-ify it.
> Regards
> Stephen
Aha. Still learning all of this new stuff. Thanks for the tips.
I'll probably play around with it some later on and see how it works out.
Thanks! :)
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