Not sure how many of you use Chris Radek's truetype-tracer program, but I do use it a fair bit. The one thing I've wanted to do is be able to set a scale to the output. Of course you can rescale in any cad program, but I thought it might be convenient to be able to generate to a scale or overall length.
Decided to hobble up a little utility program that will do just that, I've called it tttscale and it intended to be used only with the file generated by truetype-tracer-dxf. The program lets you specify the overal length of the string along the X axis, as well as letting you specify an X and Y offset. I've tested the output with qcad and dxf2gcode and haven't had a problem. I've stressed tested it a bit generating some very large font strings (150 meters in length) and some very small (0.1mm) nice thing about true type fonts is that they scale beautifully. If you'd like to give it a go you can download the c source file from: http://co-japan.com/metalworking I've include compiling instructions at the top of the file. Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
