On Saturday 13 September 2014 01:39:00 Lawrence Glaister did opine And Gene did reply: > Hi Guys.... > I have not messed with engrave for quite a while. I fired it up and > found my new development machine was missing fonts. I tried the qcad > fonts, but they have changed the font file format when the transitioned > from qcad V2 to qcad V3. The Qcad version 3 font files do not parse > properly. I updated the wiki page with a set of fonts that do seem to > work OK. > <http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_LinuxCNC_G-Code_Genera > tors#Text_Engraving_Software> > > Ultimately, the font parsing could be updated to support the new > format, but its not on my plate at the moment. Chris's TTT (true type > tracer) is a very good alternative for generating engraving gcode. > The advantage to engrave is that it uses very simple stick fonts that > dont require filling. > > Qcad V3 has gone kind of commercial adware and is not available in the > linux mint repositories.... it took a bit of searching to find the > older format fonts. I would not recommend installing qcad. > > Enjoy > LawrenceG aka VE7IT
I did install the older 2.something deb for 10.04.4 LTS. Those fonts worked well and I sent Dave some gcode that should be in the ballpark of usable. The problem with TrueType-Tracer ATM is a lack of docs to explain how to use the fill feature that 3.0 is supposed to have now. > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 08:50 -0700, dave wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to run engrave-11.py and although it comes up and I can > > fill in the parameters I want I seem to get no output. > > > > Ubuntu 10.04 LTS > > Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Feb 27 2014, 19:44:14) > > > > clipboard which works with vim and gedit doesn't contain > > any output. > > > > I'm apparently missing something that ought to be obvious but > > so far I've not stumbled over it. > > > > A gentle shove in the right direction would be appreciated. > > > > TIA > > > > Dave Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
