Topic: Tracing a Font?

[whdjr]

Does anybody know a program to trace a font so that I have an outline when I'm done?

[M-dub]

Depending on what the font is, you might get somewhere using the Explode Text function in Express Tools if you have it.
(I don't have acad right now to double check, but I think that might work...again, depending on which font you're using.)

[Josh Nieman]

Echo M-Dub.

All the fonts that are TTF, or a filled font... it leaves you with an outline... sometimes you get some triangles interspersed within the outline, but a little more exploding of the regions will leave you with lines  you can easily trim or erase away to clean it up.

[MP]

What have you done with D.I.Y. Will? Exploit wmfout / wmfin ...

Hints:
• Commands: WmfOpts, WmfOut, WmfIn.
• System vars: WmfBkGnd, WmfForeGnd.
• Registry entries: ..\FixedProfile\WMF\*.*
• Insert point top left corner of viewport.
• Scale x 2.
• Examine resulting block definition, WMFn.
• ...

[whdjr]

You guys are the BLING! BLING!

Thanks for the help.

[whdjr]

D.I.Y.  ...what?

Do
It
Yourself 
??

I have a huge deadline before I can go home tonight and I didn't have the time to spend figuring it out.

[MP]

Affirmative to "Do It Yourself" and apologies. See my previous post to the swamp.

[whdjr]

No worries Mate!

[Mark]

What have you done with D.I.Y. Will? Exploit wmfout / wmfin ...

Hints:
• Commands: WmfOpts, WmfOut, WmfIn.
• System vars: WmfBkGnd, WmfForeGnd.
• Registry entries: ..\FixedProfile\WMF\*.*
• Insert point top left corner of viewport.
• Scale x 2.
• Examine resulting block definition, WMFn.
• ...

Could we get some more explination please? I seem to be a little slow this morning.

[MP]

Could we get some more explination please? I seem to be a little slow this morning.

RDV: If you wmfout 'stuff' and then 'wmfin' same the wmf block hosts nothing but polylines, even if what you exported started as text.

[Mark]

Could we get some more explination please? I seem to be a little slow this morning.

RDV: If you wmfout 'stuff' and then 'wmfin' same the wmf block hosts nothing but polylines, even if what you exported started as text.

That's what I thought too but, when I 'wmfout' a piece of text using a wide font then 'wmfin' the same text I get a block, so far so good, but if I explode it I get text. I am using '06 though, maybe that's why! < confused >

[MP]

That's what I thought too but, when I 'wmfout' a piece of text using a wide font then 'wmfin' the same text I get a block, so far so good, but if I explode it I get text. I am using '06 though, maybe that's why! < confused >

Ergo the mention of WmfOpts (turn off wide lines); can do the same via the registry entry, ...\FixedProfile\WMF\WideLines.



Edit: fixed horrific typo.

[Mark]

That's what I thought too but, when I 'wmfout' a piece of text using a wide font then 'wmfin' the same text I get a block, so far so good, but if I explode it I get text. I am using '06 though, maybe that's why! < confused >

Ergo the mention of WmfOpts (turn off wide lines); can do the same via the registry entry, ...\FixedProfile\WMF\WideLines.

I tried both options on/off in WmfOpts, still no love! What am I missing?

[SDETERS]

What Font you trying to turn in to text or trying to trace?

I might be able to spit out a DXF file for you quickly if it is a common Font.

[MP]

I tried both options on/off in WmfOpts, still no love! What am I missing?

Did you set wide lines off before exporting?