Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote: Gene, The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format if you can use it send me an email off list and I will send it to you. I have version 19 of BobCad. Wayne \ Humm, that sounds like a potential copyright problem, so I'll skip. I may be able to find something in a

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread John Kasunich
wp wrote: Gene, The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format if you can use it send me an email off list and I will send it to you. I have version 19 of BobCad. Wayne Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Barker
Okay, I answered my own question with a little research. Here's one: Documentation for PlotFont - http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/plotutils/plotutils_27.html Part of a larger package PlotUtils - (Docs) - http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/plotutils/plotutils.html#SEC_Top Source -

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi, I you can make this work then it is clearly open http://tulrich.com/fonts/#20070211 Dave On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote: Gene, The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format if you can use it send me an email off list and I will send

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread ben lipkowitz
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, wp wrote: John personally that font is such a piece of crap I wouldn't want it anyway.as for copyright.. I have no idea and that thought never crossed my mind. I think that there are much better and openly available fonts other than in BobCad I can not get

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread wp
John personally that font is such a piece of crap I wouldn't want it anyway.as for copyright.. I have no idea and that thought never crossed my mind. I think that there are much better and openly available fonts other than in BobCad I can not get that font to open even with a .FNT

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread wp
Gene, The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format if you can use it send me an email off list and I will send it to you. I have version 19 of BobCad. Wayne Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: I have used Bobcad for this. Even an old version will work fine. It can take any True-Type font on your system and use that. I hacked up their internal vector

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread John Kasunich
Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote: Gene, The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format if you can use it send me an email off list and I will send it to you. I have version 19 of BobCad. Wayne \ Humm, that sounds like a potential copyright problem, so I'll skip. I may be

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, John Kasunich wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote: Gene, The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format if you can use it send me an email off list and I will send it to you. I have version 19 of BobCad. Wayne \ Humm, that sounds like a

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread jcombs
Subject Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts 02/11/2008 01:10 PM

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Jon Elson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages. My intent is to produce wood and Corian type signs. I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port. It's working out very well. Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code. Does anyone know of any?

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Joni
Maybe this is what you're after: http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype Regards, Alex - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:46 PM Subject: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts I have

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages. My intent is to produce wood and Corian type signs. I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port. It's working out very well. Now I am looking for fonts in

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Jon Elson
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote: I have used Bobcad for this. Even an old version will work fine. It can take any True-Type font on your system and use that. I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 11 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages. My intent is to produce wood and Corian type signs. I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port. It's working out very well. Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread jcombs
cc e.net Subject Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts 02/11/2008 08:00

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Jack
http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype - generate signs from truetype to dxf or g-code -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:46 AM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: [Emc-users

[Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread jcombs
I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages. My intent is to produce wood and Corian type signs. I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port. It's working out very well. Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code. Does anyone know of any? I have code to resize and

Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

2008-02-11 Thread Jack
I ran across a macro written in Visual Basic that can be installed in Autocad that seems to do a pretty good job of converting polylines into gcode. Using creating text in autocad then selecting Expresstextexplode, then Modifyexplode, then using the pedit command convert and join the lines to