Download the extension and unpack the ZIP file into ~/.config/inkscape/extensions/Īfter a restart of Inkscape, the functions of the extension will be available under Extensions > Custom Stroke Fonts. The installation of extensions from within Inkscape is still experimental. Custom Stroke Fonts Extensions Installation of Custom Stroke Fonts Extensions Choose in the Utilities tab – Generate glyph table in selected font. Glyph table of Hershey Script 1 stroke font, rendered with the Hershey Text extension. While on a cutting plotter this is what you want, you might not want this on a laser engraver, CNC engraver or pen plotter. What is different about this type of text or the font which is used to render it – TrueType/OpenType or PostScript fonts (so called outline fonts) – is how it describes the contour of the glyph. Marking material that is often small, he could re-use his knowledge about this kind of font. Later, he did work at the US National Bureau of Standards. He developed a set of fonts designed to be rendered on early cathode ray tube displays.

Allen Vincent Hershey who did work in the 1960s at the US Naval Weapons Laboratory. If you try testing all of the extensions Inkscape comes with, you might get to this one and ask yourself, “What is it for? It just renders text?” This extension brings a small set of Stroke Fonts or Hershey Fonts. Inkscape version 0.91+ includes an extension called Hershey Text – Extensions > Text > Hershey Text. Stroke Fonts – Hershey Fonts What are Stroke Fonts/Hershey Fonts All are helpful for working with so called Stroke or Hershey Fonts.

This time, several extensions for Inkscape will be examined. The last article of this series showed how to design embroidery with Inkscape and the extension Ink/Stitch. Also, Inkscape can do a lot more than just graphics. With vector graphics (in our case SVG) a lot more can be done.

Inkscape, the most used and loved tool of Fedora’s Design Team is not just a program for doing nice vector graphics.

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