Hi Steve, I just printed out your scadd sundial. It's nice. Regarding the topic of getting fonts to print out the way you want them to, PostScript has a command that turns a charcater to a just another path. It should be possible to do that and then turn it into dxf.
Then it should be possible to add it to another drawing shouldn't it? I've just looked into the Deltacad a little bit. The gnomon on your dial is a verticale pin at the center of the cross, and half as tall as the cross, right? Best, John > > A1) The HPGL definition in PRINTGL does not explain how fonts are selected. > There is a CS command (Character Set), but that only allows for selection of > ASCII, ISO variant etc., not typeface. It seems as if there may be no way > for a CAD program to control which typeface is used. > > A2) The corners of the characters are put on a sloping line because the plot > data includes a set of positioning commands for each character. The software > carefully works out a coordinate on a sloping line for each one. It then > neglects to tell the ploter to rotate them to the intended angle. I was > surprised when I saw what was happening - I expected there to be a command > to postion the corner of a printed text string and one to rotate it, plus a > single text string forming the entire label. Instead, it treats each > character as a seperate entity. > > > results - what is that better choice of printer? > > - Do HPGL or HPGL/2 in fact provide a way to control the typeface used (e.g.
