Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[jcombs]

Alex, Thanks for the wiki help.

Here is a link to the CXF format stuff.

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/uploads/CXF%20Format.jpg

Jim Combs - Lexington, Ky



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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, John Kasunich wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote:
>>> Gene,
>>> The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an
>>> email off list and I will send it to you.
>>> I have version 19 of BobCad.
>>> Wayne
>>> \
>>
>> Humm, that sounds like a potential copyright problem, so I'll skip. I may
>> be able to find something in a single line font on goldenweb.it, that's a
>> great site to pull fonts from, probably sick bird here, but...
>
>The Hershey fonts (public domain, as long as they aren't in one
>particular data format) contain a single line font.  Jeff Epler
>has them on his site: http://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey
>
>A GPL'ed Hershey to g-code utility is on my to-do list, but I'm pretty
>busy at the moment, so don't hold your breath.
>
>Regards,
>
>John Kasunich
>
Hershey fonts?  Those date back to Jurassic park, the original, not the movie.  
I was around when Bill Barden was doing those, using a trs-80 Color Computer, 
and I think I may have a copy on my hard drive attached to my coco3.

Now all I gotta do is find time to turn it on and do the search.

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Chris Barker]

Okay, I answered my own question with a little research.
Here's one:

Documentation for "PlotFont" - 
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/plotutils/plotutils_27.html
Part of a larger package "PlotUtils" - (Docs) - 
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/plotutils/plotutils.html#SEC_Top
Source - http://www.delorie.com/gnu/dl/gnuindex.cgi/ftp.gnu.org/plotutils

Otherwise I see that they can be used with TEX, IDL, Java 

Chris


Chris Barker wrote:
> I'm interested being they are free to use .  :^)
> What font utilities will read .jhf files?  In either Linux or MS Windows.
> If I can ultimately get them into CAD then I can go from there.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Jon Elson]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>Yes, it is the "bobcad" default font, used for all drawing
>>dimensions, for instance.  This is on version 16.1, anyway.
>>
> 
> Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?
> 

It is in file font.cad, in Bobcad file format, so I suppose you
could either take it from there or export it to whatever format 
you like.

Jon

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Chris Barker]

I'm interested being they are free to use .  :^)
What font utilities will read .jhf files?  In either Linux or MS Windows.
If I can ultimately get them into CAD then I can go from there.

Thanks,
Chris

John Kasunich wrote:
> The Hershey fonts (public domain, as long as they aren't in one
> particular data format) contain a single line font.  Jeff Epler
> has them on his site: http://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey
>
> A GPL'ed Hershey to g-code utility is on my to-do list, but I'm pretty
> busy at the moment, so don't hold your breath.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Kasunich
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Dave Engvall]

Hi,
I you can make this work then it is clearly open

http://tulrich.com/fonts/#20070211

Dave
On Feb 12, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote:
>> Gene,
>> The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an
>> email off list and I will send it to you.
>> I have version 19 of BobCad.
>> Wayne
>> \
> Humm, that sounds like a potential copyright problem, so I'll skip.  
> I may be
> able to find something in a single line font on goldenweb.it,  
> that's a great
> site to pull fonts from, probably sick bird here, but...
>
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>>
>>> Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?
>
>
>
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[ben lipkowitz]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, wp wrote:

> John personally that font is such a piece of crap I wouldn't want it 
> anyway.as for copyright.. I have no idea and that thought never 
> crossed my mind. I think that there are much better and "openly 
> available" fonts other than in BobCad I can not get that font to 
> open even with a .FNT file reader. Wayne

There are several attractive single line fonts packaged with the Qcad 
program, in /usr/share/qcad/fonts however they are in a strange format 
that appears to be unique to qcad. The format looks easily 
reverse-engineerable since it's just arcs and lines, or you could save the 
text as .dxf and convert to g-code that way.

   -fenn

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[John Kasunich]

John Kasunich wrote:

> 
> The Hershey fonts (public domain, as long as they aren't in one
> particular data format)

I mis-spoke, but not in a way that matters.  The fonts are NOT
public domain.  But they have an extremely liberal license that
will let you do pretty much anything you want with them.

Regards,

John Kasunich

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[John Kasunich]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote:
>> Gene,
>> The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an
>> email off list and I will send it to you.
>> I have version 19 of BobCad.
>> Wayne
>> \
> Humm, that sounds like a potential copyright problem, so I'll skip. I may be 
> able to find something in a single line font on goldenweb.it, that's a great 
> site to pull fonts from, probably sick bird here, but...

The Hershey fonts (public domain, as long as they aren't in one
particular data format) contain a single line font.  Jeff Epler
has them on his site: http://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey

A GPL'ed Hershey to g-code utility is on my to-do list, but I'm pretty
busy at the moment, so don't hold your breath.

Regards,

John Kasunich

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[wp]

John personally that font is such a piece of crap I wouldn't want it 
anyway.as for copyright..
I have no idea and that thought never crossed my mind. I think that 
there are much better and
"openly available" fonts other than in BobCad I can not get that 
font to open even with a .FNT

file reader.
Wayne

John Kasunich wrote:

wp wrote:
  

Gene,
The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an 
email off list and I will send it to you.

I have version 19 of BobCad.
Wayne

Gene Heskett wrote:


On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
  Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?


  


Those fonts are probably copyright by Bobcad.  Unless you can document 
that they are licensed for other uses, please don't pass them around. 
(If you insist on doing so, please don't talk about it here.)


Regards,

John Kasunich


  


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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, wp wrote:
>Gene,
>The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an
>email off list and I will send it to you.
>I have version 19 of BobCad.
>Wayne
>\
Humm, that sounds like a potential copyright problem, so I'll skip. I may be 
able to find something in a single line font on goldenweb.it, that's a great 
site to pull fonts from, probably sick bird here, but...

>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>
>> Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?



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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[John Kasunich]

wp wrote:
> Gene,
> The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an 
> email off list and I will send it to you.
> I have version 19 of BobCad.
> Wayne
> 
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>   Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?
>>
>>

Those fonts are probably copyright by Bobcad.  Unless you can document 
that they are licensed for other uses, please don't pass them around. 
(If you insist on doing so, please don't talk about it here.)

Regards,

John Kasunich


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[wp]

Gene,
The Bobcad font is in the .FNT format   if you can use it send me an 
email off list and I will send it to you.

I have version 19 of BobCad.
Wayne

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
  
Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?


  


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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work
>fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use
>that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a
>couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
>True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.

How do you do the fill?  Or is my version old?, all it does is the
 outline trace...
>>>
>>>Ummm, yeah, you are right, it DOESN'T fill in the interior, it
>>>only cuts the outline.  I don't use the TT fonts with it, I use
>>>the one internal font that I modified, which is a non-outline
>>>font.
>>
>> Is that font mentioned in the docs? I haven't hit them since last spring
>> when I was cutting the house and mailbox nameplates in kick panel brass.
>
>Yes, it is the "bobcad" default font, used for all drawing
>dimensions, for instance.  This is on version 16.1, anyway.
>
Is that something I could extract and use elsewhere Jon?

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Jon Elson]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
> 
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>>
I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work
fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use
that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a
couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.
>>>
>>>How do you do the fill?  Or is my version old?, all it does is the outline
>>>trace...
>>
>>Ummm, yeah, you are right, it DOESN'T fill in the interior, it
>>only cuts the outline.  I don't use the TT fonts with it, I use
>>the one internal font that I modified, which is a non-outline
>>font.
>>
> 
> Is that font mentioned in the docs? I haven't hit them since last spring when 
> I was cutting the house and mailbox nameplates in kick panel brass.
> 

Yes, it is the "bobcad" default font, used for all drawing 
dimensions, for instance.  This is on version 16.1, anyway.

Jon

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>>I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work
>>>fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use
>>>that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a
>>>couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
>>>True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.
>>
>> How do you do the fill?  Or is my version old?, all it does is the outline
>> trace...
>
>Ummm, yeah, you are right, it DOESN'T fill in the interior, it
>only cuts the outline.  I don't use the TT fonts with it, I use
>the one internal font that I modified, which is a non-outline
>font.
>
Is that font mentioned in the docs? I haven't hit them since last spring when 
I was cutting the house and mailbox nameplates in kick panel brass.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Jon Elson]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>>I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work
>>fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use
>>that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a
>>couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
>>True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.
> 
> 
> How do you do the fill?  Or is my version old?, all it does is the outline 
> trace...
> 

Ummm, yeah, you are right, it DOESN'T fill in the interior, it 
only cuts the outline.  I don't use the TT fonts with it, I use 
the one internal font that I modified, which is a non-outline
font.

Jon

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Jack]

I ran across a macro written in Visual Basic that can be installed in 
Autocad that seems to do a pretty good job of converting polylines into 
gcode.
Using creating text in autocad then selecting Express>text>explode, then 
Modify>explode, then using the pedit command convert and join the lines 
to polylines, then run the gcode converter after you install it. It 
spits out the gcode you are looking for.
There is a good discussion here:

CNCzone.com-The Ultimate Machinist Community 
 > Programing and Design 
 > Autodesk Software 
(Autocad, Inventor etc) 

Reload this Page 
 * AutoCAD 2 
G-Code macro*

 
and the macro itself with instructions to install it is here:

http://home.comcast.net/~cncwoodworker/acad/downloads/AC2GCv039.zip

You do have to jump through some hoops to get it installed so that 
Autocad can find it.  I am using Autocad 2007. The macro was created for 
an earlier version, but it works fine on mine.

Jack Ensor



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> anyone know of any?
>
> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have
> yet to
> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
> just a source
> of G code fonts.
>
> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
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>
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Thanks for the pointers.

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> I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
> produce wood and
> Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port.
> It's working
> out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
> anyone know of any?
>
> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I
have
> yet to
> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
> just a source
> of G code fonts.
>
> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
> ability to
> generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?
I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work
fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use
that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a
couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 February 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
>> produce wood and
>> Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port.
>> It's working
>> out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
>> anyone know of any?
>>
>> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have
>> yet to
>> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
>> just a source
>> of G code fonts.
>>
>> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
>> ability to
>> generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?
>
>I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work
>fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use
>that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a
>couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
>True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.

How do you do the fill?  Or is my version old?, all it does is the outline 
trace...

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Jon Elson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
> produce wood and
> Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port.
> It's working
> out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
> anyone know of any?
> 
> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have
> yet to
> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
> just a source
> of G code fonts.
> 
> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
> ability to
> generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?
I have used Bobcad for this.  Even an old version will work 
fine.  It can take any True-Type font on your system and use 
that.  I hacked up their internal vector font to clean up a 
couple rough characters, but if you want filled-in fonts, the
True-Type ones work nice, they just take longer.

Jon

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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
>produce wood and
>Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port.
>It's working
>out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
>anyone know of any?
>
>I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have
>yet to
>find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
>just a source
>of G code fonts.
>
>I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
>ability to
>generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?
>
>I am new to Linux but so far am very pleased at the quality and robustness
>of the whole
>OS and EMC support.
>
>Thanks, Jim Combs
>
>Lexington, KY
>
There is the TrueTypeTracer, (google for it) which takes a tt font, and the 
text you want to make gcode from.  It draws the outline of the font with 
gcode, but I don't have the proper engraving bits to make it look 'pretty' 
since it doesn't trace the center of each character.  I would be very nice if 
this actually traced the geometric centerline, or did fill removal inside he 
characters.  However for brass nameplates and such, it works quite well if a 
cursive font is used.  I believe that or something very similar was used to 
generate the gcode axis logo module that emc loads on default at startup.

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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Alex Joni]

Maybe this is what you're after:
http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype

Regards,
Alex

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Subject: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts


>I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
> produce wood and
> Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port.
> It's working
> out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
> anyone know of any?
>
> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have
> yet to
> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
> just a source
> of G code fonts.
>
> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
> ability to
> generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?
>
> I am new to Linux but so far am very pleased at the quality and robustness
> of the whole
> OS and EMC support.
>
> Thanks, Jim Combs
>
> Lexington, KY
>
>
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[jcombs]

I can't seem to get to that link. (At least from Lexmark)  I will try it
from home.

Thanks, Jim C



   
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Maybe this is what you're after:
http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype

Regards,
Alex

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Subject: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts


>I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
> produce wood and
> Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port.
> It's working
> out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
> anyone know of any?
>
> I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I
have
> yet to
> find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or
> just a source
> of G code fonts.
>
> I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
> ability to
> generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?
>
> I am new to Linux but so far am very pleased at the quality and
robustness
> of the whole
> OS and EMC support.
>
> Thanks, Jim Combs
>
> Lexington, KY
>
>
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Re: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

[Jack]

 http://timeguy.com/cradek/truetype - generate signs from truetype to dxf or
g-code

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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:46 AM
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
Subject: [Emc-users] Request for Fonts

I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages.  My intent is to
produce wood and Corian type signs.  I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284
parallel port.
It's working
out very well.  Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code.  Does
anyone know of any?

I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have
yet to find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code
or just a source of G code fonts.

I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the
ability to generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu?

I am new to Linux but so far am very pleased at the quality and robustness
of the whole OS and EMC support.

Thanks, Jim Combs

Lexington, KY


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