On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages. My intent is to >> produce wood and >> Corian type signs. I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port. >> It's working >> out very well. Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code. Does >> anyone know of any? >> >> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have >> yet to >> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or >> just a source >> of G code fonts. >> >> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the >> ability to >> generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu? > >I have used Bobcad for this. Even an old version will work >fine. It can take any True-Type font on your system and use >that. I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a >couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the >True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.
How do you do the fill? Or is my version old?, all it does is the outline trace... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) A wise man can see more from a mountain top than a fool can from the bottom of a well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
