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keithp@fosstodon.org

keithp

My little gcode text drawing program has gotten all fancy with command line arguments and everything.
Did I mention that the stroke font is derived from the Hershey fonts, but with the original curves replaced with cubic splines so that text looks good at a range of sizes? And extended to support ASCII? Bdale also suggested changing the name to 'gcode-text'. Once we get the laser etcher working, I'll upload the package to debian. https://github.com/keith-packard/gcode-text

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jmorris

James Morris

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@keithp Thanks for writing a man page! Also, Nickle looks very interesting.
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keithp@fosstodon.org

keithp

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@jmorris I have to admit I'm tempted to translate this to Python so that other people can use this code for other projects more easily, but Nickle was a much easier target given that the font stuff started in my 'twin' project in C...

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keithp@fosstodon.org

keithp

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@jmorris and here it is! https://github.com/keith-packard/gcode-text/blob/main/gcode_text.py
It's supposed to be completely compatible with the nickle version.

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