trufont
TruFont is a streamlined and hackable font editor. À l’ancienne. (by trufont)
vpype
The Swiss-Army-knife command-line tool for plotter vector graphics. (by abey79)
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| trufont | vpype | |
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| 2 | 16 | |
| 465 | 651 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 1.6 | 7.5 | |
| 10 months ago | 10 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
trufont
Posts with mentions or reviews of trufont.
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Converting .CFF format to .TTF
It works for sure - and quite well. I teach my students on FontForge and they prepare good quality CFF and TTF fonts. Personally I work with FontLab 8. But sometimes I use also FontForge and even TruFont. So, for the conversion you can use also TruFont (https://github.com/trufont/trufont).
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What do folks think about such fragmentation when it comes to linux in general
The one thing I've noticed as I've moved more and more to FLOSS solutions is the extent to which everything is made with developers as end users in mind. Like one totally ubiquitous thing is describing an application substantially or primarily by the tools used to create it. One example that stuck in my mind is trufont, which is described as
vpype
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- Building a DIY Pen Plotter
- Which version of Processing should I learn if I want to plot my images with an Axidraw plotter?
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Helper to draw SVG from left to right (pencil/ fountain pens)
I'm not sure but that sounds like something vpype could do: https://github.com/abey79/vpype
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Axidraw / Inkscape masking problem
If your polygons are closed you can try using vpype with the occult plug in to automatically remove invisible paths. The catch is that they really need to be closed polygons and not lines. There may be another plug in that does handle lines though.
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Islamic Geometric Art (Design #30 from Anadolu Selçuklu Sanatinin Geometrik Dili)
The basics: I generated this plot via a program I wrote. That program was written in Javascript, using the p5.js library for drawing lines and stuff, and canvas-sketch to generate the SVG for plotting. I passed the SVG through vpype to merge & sort the lines, and then connected to the AxiDraw using saxi. Not knowing where you're at, those are a good choice to get started—Javascript is an okay language, and p5.js is really good for just getting stuff appearing on the page. And you can just start with the first 2, and add vpype and saxi later.
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Ask HN: Software to turn black and white image into plottable SVG?
Ah, very nice.
That should reduce the effort needed to something you might be able to make quick work of, yourself, with some thought.
this website [1] recommends a tool called vpype [2] which might have an option to do what you need or might be able to be tweaked to do what you need
[1] https://www.acrylicode.com/svg-to-gcode-walkthrough/
[2] https://github.com/abey79/vpype
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[Help] Cropping SVG problem
vpype: https://github.com/abey79/vpype occult plugin for vpype: https://github.com/LoicGoulefert/occult
- What is your workflow and goto code libraries?
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Lots of dots issue with pen plotter
I think the lines are so small it makes dots. You can use vpipe tool to fix up stuff like this. Don't ask me for the command I just know it exists. https://github.com/abey79/vpype
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Anyone worked out how to get an plotter to do joined up hand writing?
VPype has good tools for post-processing SVG to optimize plot speed. Simplifying the geometry and optimizing the line drawing order are the two basic things. Axidraw's Inkscape extension does some of this automatically, too.