Robocut

custom kerning?

Asked by murray lantz

robocut does not seem to respect custom kerning. am i doing something wrong?

i created a plain SVG using the sans font with manually adjusted letter spacing. opening the svg with robocut shows default kerning and it cuts with default spacing.

fedora 13
inkscape 0.47
git robocut
silhouette sd

i've been using graphtecprint and it works OK but robocut appears to be a lot more precise. circular cuts look so much better with with robocut. thanks for your work and please let me know if you require any additional info.

murray

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Markus Schulz (schulz-alpharesearch) said : 		#1

Answer from lead developer Tim:
> On 4 March 2011 00:15, Markus Schulz wrote:
> My little google search found that SVG tiny 1.2 supports some kerning
> (but maybe not this type the user is using?), is this something that
> should work? Or is this something SVG tiny 1.2 doesn't support? I think
> you once told me that Robocut uses QTs SVG tiny 1.2, is that true?

Yeah it just uses Qt's SVG renderer. According to their docs: "Qt
supports the static features of SVG 1.2 Tiny.". I couldn't easily tell
but I guess that SVG Tiny doesn't support custom kerning (i.e. it only
uses the kerning specified by the font). The easiest way around it is
just to convert the text to paths in Inkscape. Very hard way: use a
full SVG rendering library!

[Markus Schulz] I guess Tim answered your question, I think the convert function in Inkscape is a good workaround. If you want to use a different library and start developing please let me know I'm interested in any advancement.

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murray lantz (murray8000) said : 		#2

ok, i'll continue to trace the text. thanks for the quick response.