For myself, it wouldn't be acceptable, because it tends to form sort of knots where lines intersect. For that, you'd need a raster image of the text, and use the Centerline Trace engine on it. I guess you could try the Centerline Trace extension. I think it IS possible to do, it's just going to take even more time than using Hershey Text. If you're interested to try, I'd probably try to use Extensions menu > Generate from Path > Interpolate. Certainly doing that with another font would take much, much more time than using the Hershey Text extension. Yeah, there's just no easy way to create what you want with Inkscape.

You'd have to either find another font like CamBam, or else make one yourself. It sounds like you've already found one though.Īlso, I don't think I've heard of an extension called Custom Stroke Fonts. Do you mean that you want it to be a font that you can install on your system? I don't know of anything like that. Put that grid-path on top of your text-path, select both grid and text-path, and apply Path → Division (Ctrl+/). Select all cloned rectangles, unlink them (Shift+Alt+D), and join them into a single path (Shift+Ctrl+= or Ctrl+NumpadPlus).Ĥ. It should generate barred grid of cloned rectangles.ģ. In the Shift tab set Shift X per Column to 100% and number of Rows, Columns to 1 x 100 (more or less columns, depending on the length of your text). Use menu Edit → Clone → Create Tiled Clones. Draw a narrow rectangle (F4 or R) tall enough to fit your text height.Ģ. Sometimes you'll get inkblot-like artifacts from insetting, and usually it's easier to manually remove them with node tool (F2 or N).ġ. Select all inset-pathes and convert them to regular pathes (Shift+Ctrl+C).Ĥ. If you can't budge the inset-node, try disabling snapping (Shift+5).ģ. Select text-path again and repeat it few times (if needed) to cover fill area. Use small diamond-shaped node to inset the stroke.Ģ.

Select your text-path and use menu Path → Linked Offset. Add stroke and remove fill from resulting path.ġ. I'm not familiar with cutting devices, but I have a pair of techniques that could possibly answer your question.įirst, you need to convert the text into path (Shift+Ctrl+C), ungroup it into separate characters (Shift+Ctrl+G), and join them into a single path (Shift+Ctrl+= or Ctrl+NumpadPlus).

Cool fonts for inkscape