I know you can create the hershey single line font from any other font, but is there a way in or outside Inkscape to create a single line font and keep the font (bittersweet).
These were single line fonts from 2011 - I used these at the time with a thermal printer there is also a discussion on the Cambam forum about single line fonts in general.
You can create any single line font of your choise in Inkscape. If you are creating it from an existing font I would recommend hand-tracing the characters. There is centerline trace options, but in the end this will never be correct so I prefer hand-tracing (drawing lines on top of the existin font f.x. my own handwriting).
The font is created as svg font and can be read by Inkscape using the Hershey Text extension. Also FontLab Pad can understand svg-fonts, but most software do not understand it. I create single line fonts in Inkscape using the Custom Stroke Font extension and use FontForge to convert to ttf fonts. If a true single line font is saved as ttf it will look strange in most software as ttf (and otf) will expect outlines, not single lines. I have written inkscape extension to convert an single line svg font to a stick font (which is a double line font where each character is traced back and forth) and can be converted to ttf/otf looking like single line.
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I know you can create the hershey single line font from any other font, but is there a way in or outside Inkscape to create a single line font and keep the font (bittersweet).
Going back in time about 10 years
https://www.cambam.pixelmaker.eu/Cambam/Aide/Plugins/stickfonts.html
These were single line fonts from 2011 - I used these at the time with a thermal printer there is also a discussion on the Cambam forum about single line fonts in general.
You can create any single line font of your choise in Inkscape. If you are creating it from an existing font I would recommend hand-tracing the characters. There is centerline trace options, but in the end this will never be correct so I prefer hand-tracing (drawing lines on top of the existin font f.x. my own handwriting).
The font is created as svg font and can be read by Inkscape using the Hershey Text extension. Also FontLab Pad can understand svg-fonts, but most software do not understand it. I create single line fonts in Inkscape using the Custom Stroke Font extension and use FontForge to convert to ttf fonts. If a true single line font is saved as ttf it will look strange in most software as ttf (and otf) will expect outlines, not single lines. I have written inkscape extension to convert an single line svg font to a stick font (which is a double line font where each character is traced back and forth) and can be converted to ttf/otf looking like single line.
Read more on my blog about this topic : http://cutlings.wasbo.net/designing-fonts/
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