How to use SVG fonts with CLI or Python API ?

[stephanschulz]

I found this great list of center line fonts on Windell’s gitlab
https://gitlab.com/oskay/svg-fonts
But it is unclear to me how to assemble a string and get it plotted using CLI or Python API.
I believe that Inkscape can somehow utilize these SVG and EMS fonts, but I am working on a larger interactive artwork that needs to assemble and plot text on the fly.
I have worked with both APIs before to draw SVG files and also use moveto and lineto commands; though I could not find any hints about the fonts.

I appreciate any advice.
Thank you

• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Windell Oskay.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Windell Oskay. Reason: Requested spelling correction

[Windell Oskay]

Those fonts are used by Hershey Text.

[stephanschulz]

Noted. Thanks.

I noticed I misspelled SVG and instead wrote SVF in the title. Is there a way to edit that?

I thought that the Axidraw API would have a way to interface/use the Hershey Text, since Inkscape does it too.
But it’s not a big problem.

I integrated these fonts in the ofxHersheyText openframeworks addon: https://github.com/stephanschulz/ofxHersheyFont
And here how to parse the font’s SVGs in to a string that can be run as a python script that then uses the axidraw API to plot.
https://github.com/stephanschulz/ofxHersheyFont/blob/master/example-python-string/src/ofApp.cpp#L22

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