I'm driving an AxiDraw v3 with Inkscape under Windows. All the test text I output ends up "hollow", i.e., the letters are outlined but not filled in. How do I fix this?
Also, it seems odd to have to convert text to a path to output it. But if I don't do that I get an error message back from the AxiDraw telling me to do so.
It occurs to me these problems may be related, as in converting the text to a path isn't filling the resulting path. So if there's a better way to "just output text" I'm all ears!
Okay, figured it out (and learned something I never knew about fonts before).
Most fonts (maybe all) are "outline fonts". The specs define the shape, which is then filled in automatically in the rendering process when you view them on-screen or print them.
AxiDraw (the output device I'm using) doesn't support filling any shape directly. Instead, there's a HatchFill extension which fills shapes with a pattern defined by lines drawn at angles. By spacing the lines close enough to each other you can, in effect, fill in a shape. But it's a multi-step process.
Using Inkscape with Cutters/Plotters Text is not filled
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I'm driving an AxiDraw v3 with Inkscape under Windows. All the test text I output ends up "hollow", i.e., the letters are outlined but not filled in. How do I fix this?
Also, it seems odd to have to convert text to a path to output it. But if I don't do that I get an error message back from the AxiDraw telling me to do so.
It occurs to me these problems may be related, as in converting the text to a path isn't filling the resulting path. So if there's a better way to "just output text" I'm all ears!
Okay, figured it out (and learned something I never knew about fonts before).
Most fonts (maybe all) are "outline fonts". The specs define the shape, which is then filled in automatically in the rendering process when you view them on-screen or print them.
AxiDraw (the output device I'm using) doesn't support filling any shape directly. Instead, there's a HatchFill extension which fills shapes with a pattern defined by lines drawn at angles. By spacing the lines close enough to each other you can, in effect, fill in a shape. But it's a multi-step process.