[GTALUG] Scripting Inkscape, and a new font appears

[Stewart C. Russell]

Hi Dave,


> Also (nerdly) cool! 

Glad you likeed it.

> You might want to hand-tune the last few of those fonts.  They have
> filled-n letters (like e and o) and i doesn't show up at all.

That was deliberate. It's what pen plotters do if you try to reproduce
detail that's finer than the pen: detail disappears. I made the demi
weight so that you could have a bold that had some extra heft yet
retained some detail in the counters.

I don't recommend using the lightest weight at all outside a CNC shop.
It has no stroke weight, so disappears on most screens. It is easy to
turn it into single strokes in most CAD packages so you can drive a
tool/pen/laser around it quickly.

(I clean up my Inkscape exports in the truly awful LaserCut for Windows
Demo, that runs nicely under Wine:
https://wiki.nottinghack.org.uk/wiki/Laser_cutter/LaserCut/Install
 - although it's a demo, it does allow you to export DXF, and if you're
using a Rabbit Laser driven by LaserCut (like ProtoLab), it saves the
project when you exit, and the results work very well.)

cheers,
 Stewart