Nasty text explosion

[Helvetosaur]

When I explode text with this particular font (native Windows) I get some bad results.

Funny thing, TextObject with the same text has no problem… ?? --Mitch

BadTextExplosion.3dm (448.4 KB)

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Exploding text is broken

Fonts are notorious for having bad curve definitions - they are made for print, not for manufacturing. Illustration type programs may well be better at dealing with these bad definitions. –Mitch

Exploding text is broken

Without looking carefully at a specific case, I think its because of missing closing segments in some truetype character definitions as has been suggested above. It’s legal to have a truetype font contour that’s not explicitly closed and the last segment is added when the charater is rendered. The TextObject command deals with that pretty carefully. The checkbox about single stroke fonts disables adding the last segment so that special purpose fonts that meant to render as curves and not fill…