Stroke Font Extensions with Center Line Tracing of Inkscape 1.0
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- The new center-line auto-tracing will greatly reduce the effort of new stroke font creation. This tutorial will show you how.
Earlier Custom Stroke Font Tutorials:
• Stroke Font Extensions...
• Stroke Font Extensions...
• Stroke Font Extensions...
• Stroke Font Update | B...
Extensions repository: github.com/Shriinivas/inkscap...
Download link for the open font used for tracing in this video:
fontlibrary.org/en/font/alex-...
Ah, finding centerline when vectorizing is something I've been looking for for a long time, thank you.
Not only for fonts, but all kinds of designs that require single lines, e.g plotting..
Inkscape is really getting better :)
I love inkscape. So much to learn. This helps for embroidery!
Thank you soooo much, I have been looking for this for 2 hours!!
Very great info! I saved me so many hours of work! Thank you!
Sir, thank you so much.i am trying ths with tamil fonts and can't thank you enough🙏
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks. Explained it well.
Thank you a lot for providing the extension and the detailed and very helpful tutorials. I'm quite far with creating a stroke font from my handwriting. I'm wondering whether there is a way to implement ligatures and font variations into the text rendering. I guess it is limited by the SVG format - or am I wrong?
The extensions don't support advanced font features like ligurature. I wrote these extensions just as a way to render curves mapped to characters.
@@Khemadeva thank you for your quick reply. Shouldn't it be possible to show ligature characters and map them? I will try that...one just needs to replace the character combinations by ligatures before rendering (?). I think I have to get more knowledge about how ligatures work
Great! Thank you
One problem in space more spaces in two latter how to resolve this
You can set the space width in Generate Font Data extension. If you want to reduce the spacing between letters make sure your vertical guides are close to the edge.
@@Khemadeva Solved. Thank you very much
Thank you for this tutorial! Is this possible with accented letters as well, like æøå?
Yes, you can use accented letters. Just make sure there is a single path for each glyph (you need to combine the separate paths) and the xml ID is the same as the character.
Thank you for the quick reply @@Khemadeva ! I've struggled for a week now with generating font design template - but nothing is showing up! The three layers, glyps and lines are generated, and showing in the layers list and the svg is full of code. But the document is blank. I've used both windows and linux, and used language and keyboard settings only english. I've regenerated the template and tried to convert everything to paths to make the "accessible". But to no avail. I'm using v1.3. Perhaps I should try 0.92? Or do you have other suggestions? Again, thank you for your great tools!
@@Khemadeva : Installed v1.2.2, now it works! Woho!
I have a dumb question apologies I am not familiar with these technologies. Is it possible to export the SVG fonts to use them in web pages?
You can directly publish the svg as a web page. All web browsers can render svg pages. It should also be possible to embed text using these fonts in html through JavaScript. I haven't tried that myself though.
Sir, how to make double to single line from scan image
You can try the single line tracing. It's not perfect though, so you may have to do some manual editing.
Ok, now that I have done all that work, how do I actually USE the font I just created???
Please use the Render Text extension to render the text using your creation ( ua-cam.com/play/PLxsh4i5F_h9E1pJDMRb4mfunzDpq2U2Ku.html ). You can also use these stroke fonts with Blender to create writing animation: ua-cam.com/video/S6lxYLMTxyg/v-deo.html
Can this work in inkscape 1.1.1 mac os?
I have tested in 1.1.1 with Linux bit it should work in Mac as well, please let me know if you are facing any specific problem.
Hello.
Excuse me, my English is very poor (and even now I use Google translator) and I hardly understand what this is about.
Please tell me - what is this extension for?
Can I use it to make my own font in Inkscape?
You can create your own single stroke fonts in Inkscape with these extensions. Please see this introductory tutorial: ua-cam.com/video/iCsnYlVjWA0/v-deo.html