I have been a bit snowed under with study commit= ments, but I've been sporadically working on a utility to convert (prim= arily) sans serif outline defined (i.e. ttf) font glyphs to stroked glyphs,= which are more suited to plotters, i.e. cnc routers or gerber plotters

http://vk5hse.blogspot.com/20= 16/06/outline-font-to-centreline-defined-font.html

https://github.com= /erichVK5/outlineFont2centrelineFont

My motiva= tion was to have the osifont CAD compatible font available for use with gED= A.

https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont

T= he KicadModule2GEDA utility uses the Hershey sans font to write text on foo= tprint silkescreen layers=C2=A0that are defined in the kicad module; I'= d like to have the osifont as the default as it is GPL2.

My = https://github.com/erichVK5/FootprintTextForPCB utility supports gothic= , roman, cyrillic and greek hershey fonts. I'd like to add osifont supp= ort to it as well.

The Hershey sans stroke f= ont that has already been ported is quite good looking, and can be dropped = in as a replacement for default_font in the PCB binary directory tree.

The centerline font utility is at the point where I ju= st need to find the hours to port the ASCII character set to a font file of= symbols, at which point it could be dropped in, just like the already port= ed ones can be dropped in as alternative fonts.

I = don't like the Hebrew font I ported some time ago, as it was converted = from the gnu unifont bitmapped font, so I'll probably do a conversion o= f the Hebrew alphabet from the osifont too.

Regards,

Erich.

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Kai-= Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
<= blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-= left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-le= ft-style:solid">Chad Parker wrote:

> Another solution might be to give the font a name, say, "pcb font= 2016",
> and reference the name of the font in the text definition, or perhaps<= br> > have a line somewhere in the file that specifies the font to use in th= e
> design. Then the fonts could be stored internal to pcb. If the font is=
> tweaked, give it a new name. Existing layouts call out the old name, a= nd
> get the intended font.

I'd be happy to see this realized. It combines reliability with<= br> flexibility.

> And if someone decided to implement other fonts
> at some point, it would also give the user a way to make a selection.<= br>
Actually, there are already a couple of good looking alternative fon= ts
contributed by Erich Heinzle. See his page on gedasymbols.org
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 http://www.gedasymbols.org= /user/erich_heinzle/
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (scroll down, to the very bottom of the = page)

However, there is no font handling available in pcb. Right now, you'd h= ave
to manually copy-paste the new font into the *.pcb file with a text
editor.

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