New development version released to include the ability to use inches (flag -i) on the command line. Also fixed a problem with the offset calculation when using inches.
http:co-japan.com/metalworking Correct file is tttscale-002.c Cheers, Mark Mark Thomas wrote: > 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. > > 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
