Thirty years later, low-cost and easily available computer-controlled manufacturing tools have created an exciting realm for exploration that’s even open to most hobbyists: Laser engravers, 3D printers, CNC routers, vinyl cutters, embroidery machines, and (yes) pen plotters. But then along came “outline” fonts, dot matrix monitors, high-resolution printers and personal computers. Good solutions– sets of “engraving” fonts –were developed. Creating simple representations of text was an important problem in early computer graphics, for both vector displays and pen plotters. Neither the problem nor the fundamental solution are new. But it goes to the heart of who we are and what we’re doing.
Huh? What’s this all about? Why are you doing this? Quick start: Download and install the EggBot extensions for Inkscape, which now include Hershey Text. This extension solves a persistent problem, and one which we have come across in many different contexts: How to easily create simple and readable vector representations of text. Oh yeah, the 't2-april' repo database will have to be updated in the Package Manager, to show the latest pkgs.Hershey Text is an Inkscape extension that can render a line of text in one of several stroke-based “engraving” fonts. Missing dependences will show up such as 'gtkmm', but they are not needed. It can also be installed via the Package Manager, which exposes another problem. tar.bz2 file to install it - the Xarchive app opens instead. One limitation in Quirky right now, is that you can't just click on a. In this case, you will need the dependency 'gsl', as I compiled it in T2 as a shared lib (1.1MB): You can download the i686 package from here (20.5MB): I have compiled Inkscape 0.91 in T2, for both amd64 and i686. Ongoing discussion of all things Quirky is here: Note, compiling Inkscape required updating of gtkmm, which is required to compile only. I intend to compile for the i686 April soon.
Note, if you don't want to install the 'devx' PET, which is very big, it should be sufficient to install the 'python' package only - which you can find in the "t2-april" repository in the Package Manager. No extra dependencies required, this will work in April64 7.0.3, though the 'devx' PET package is recommended as it has python, needed for many of the Inkscape plugins. I have compiled Inkscape 0.91 for the amd64 (x86_64) build of Quirky April.
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