As a “custom” (neither proprietary nor standard) font format, there was no readily available font editor that could be used.The mechanism for drawing fonts was based on a historic font format that turned out to be quite limiting: The original Hershey Text worked quite well, but was limited in scope. Fonts like these are usually the best choice for pen plotters, machine tools, and other circumstances where the pen width itself is significant. Fonts like these are appropriate for use in laser printers or other high-resolution devices.īy contrast, an engraving font (sometimes called a “stroke” font) is one where each visible character is defined by the stroke itself, not the area enclosed by it. That is to say, the visible part of a character in an outline font is the area enclosed by the shape.
In these, each glyph in the font defines a filled vector shape. Hershey Text v 3.0 will be bundled into future versions of Inkscape, but it’s also included with the new AxiDraw software and available on its own for download today.Īll common computer font formats (TrueType, et al.) are outline font formats. We have a comprehensive user guide for it as well. We are very pleased this week to release an all-new version of Hershey Text, written from scratch, and far more useful, capable, and extensible. Hershey text could take a little bit of text that you would type and render it into stroke fonts, also known as engraving fonts. Some years ago we wrote a neat little Inkscape extension called Hershey Text.
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