Fonts and plotters

2000-04-26 Thread john hoy
Hi Steve, I just printed out your scadd sundial. It's nice. Regarding the topic of getting fonts to print out the way you want them to, PostScript has a command that turns a charcater to a just another path. It should be possible to do that and then turn it into dxf. Then it should be possible

Re: Fonts and plotters

2000-04-26 Thread Steve Lelievre
John, The gnomon on your dial is a verticale pin at the center of the cross, and half as tall as the cross, right? Not sure which case you mean. In the polar-axis case, you're making a Horizontal Dial. The gnomon climbs at an angle from the centre of the dial (the centre of the cross). It you