Andrew wrote: > 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 > > Good one Andrew, thanks for that, was on my to-do list, if you don't mind I'll update the download on my site as well to reflect your changes.
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