Hello,
I'm very close to finishing a dxf to g-code converter, and was wondering if it might be possible to include text in the conversion as well. I suppose one could do the conversion in the cad app itself, but it seems much more elegant to have my app do it. I suppose the key is to get at the vector representation of a particular font, but I'm sure this is no easy feat. I've taken a look at the FreeType library, but boy, it's seems there's huge mountain to climb there in terms of what functions are really required to do what I want. Anyone have any advise on FreeType or another way of attacking the problem?
-CMR
I'm very close to finishing a dxf to g-code converter, and was wondering if it might be possible to include text in the conversion as well. I suppose one could do the conversion in the cad app itself, but it seems much more elegant to have my app do it. I suppose the key is to get at the vector representation of a particular font, but I'm sure this is no easy feat. I've taken a look at the FreeType library, but boy, it's seems there's huge mountain to climb there in terms of what functions are really required to do what I want. Anyone have any advise on FreeType or another way of attacking the problem?
-CMR
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