Thanks Mark. I've taken the liberty of modifying the code to allow input from stdin.
http://www.andyshelley.co.uk/tttscale.c On Thursday 17 Jun 2010, Mark Thomas wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
