On Thursday 17 June 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
>
Thanks. I have done this by hand, but thats a PIMA.
>I've include compiling instructions at the top of the file.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mark
>
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