Comment 11 for bug 716676
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| Windell Oskay (windell) wrote Re: No support for stroke-based ("engraving") fonts | #11 |
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@jpka:
What you originally wrote was "I can't use 'Hershey' plugin because it contains only ASCII symbols in useable single-vector form, but i need to engrave in non-U.S. language."
But what you actually meant was "I wish that the 'Hershey' plugin had additional font weights for cyrillic available."
These are VERY different things, and I don't think that it is necessary for you to outright dismiss the Hershey Text approach just because it didn't have the font weight that you want.
The original Hershey font sets included a selection of different character sets in different weights. *All* of the fonts, both the 1-stroke, 2-stroke, and 3-stroke fonts *are* suitable for engraving; there are *many* engraving cases where it is nice to have different weights available.
The cyrillic font included with the Hershey Text extension is a 2-stroke font, not a 3-stroke. It *is* a good choice for engraving. I do not know whether or not Hershey designed a single-stroke ("simplex") cyrillic font, but it would be relatively straightforward to add a new one. It would need to be designed in the same way as the Hershey fonts, on the same grid. An example editor is available here: http://