Function request: random font deformation

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Not a bug:
are you planning to implement random font deformation (like beowolf)?
Thank you

[Ryan Lerch (ryanlerch)]

can you provide some more information / mockups on your feature request?

[[e-mail] (p-gibellini)]

Thank you for the fast reply!

I've read an interesting article realted to calligraphy, this is the link:
http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/alphabetbook/alphabetbook-05.pdf
and in this document I've found that years ago two programmer realized
an interesting thing:
"For the Beowulf typeface, van Rossum and van Blockum replaced all the
lineto and curveto commands with something they wrote called freakto.
Instead of a straight line or a curve, it draws a random
spikey-looking line."

In Inkscape exists a way to apply a similar deformation to a path,
imho could be interesting to achieve a font-level effect (commonly we
find it in articles as "random font"): in this way you can emulate
handly written text, etc.

Best regards,
   Paolo Gibellini

2008/1/14, Ryan Lerch <email address hidden>:
> can you provide some more information / mockups on your feature request?
>
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> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Function request: random font deformation
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182935
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