Hi,
V5
what method to convert text to path ?
I need Stencil Font to work with as curves etc.
I use text block, type the text, then use explode and it doesnt convert it correctly.
Stencil Fonts.3dm (873.6 KB)
Cheers
Steve
Many fonts are poorly constructed. Unfortunately the only solution is to redraw the problem areas.
You might look for a similar font in hopes that it has fewer problems.
I don’t see the same problem ? It is a bit strange as I use just Rhino and Rhinocommon ?
stencil font.gh (7.2 KB)
I use
text_entity.CreateCurves(dimstyle, allowOpen, smallCapSize, spacing));That depends… There was at some point in history where good old FONT Machintosh 128K bitmap fonts that were really well made too 
Adobe’s fame came from their fonts and because Postscript made it possible for offset printing that was ultra precise - I remember 2pt fonts clearly printed back in the late 80s!
Font formats aside, there are dozen of font free and commercial font sites. Not all are ‘conforming’ but most are. Remember, it’s just beziers for the most part.
On top of probably the best text tool just mentioned above by Laurent, there’s many other tools in grasshopper that might offer the same functionality or not…
Mileage may vary depending on the tool or font. After that, there’s web tools to translate text in font to postscript which you can import in Rhino as curves…
I am seeing a virtually perfect correspondence between the three text blocks and their exploded outlines.
– In V8.
Also in V7 and V6.
Yes, Rhino V5’s result is unfortunately not good. Sorry…
yes that got improved from v6 on, but the fonts got severely messed up therefor, in v8 it is still not fixed, half of the fonts do not work entirely and its a nightmare to change substyles other than bold italic for those which would work, an issue i have been begging for and playing detective for a half an eternity. i am not sure anymore if that was a general problem for both win and mac or if that was only a mac issue…
to explode fonts accordingly in v5, i usually took these over to illustrator outline them there and bring them back to Rhino if i needed at all. maybe there is a chance to export it as pdf and import it again, i dont have v5 installed for a while now so i cant check.
Perhaps Mac-only. IIRC Mac handles fonts completely differently than Windows. In any case I have access here to all my installed fonts and all their families, and this whether they were Windows-supplied fonts, Google fonts or other stuff I downloaded from the 'net. There are sometimes problems with some fonts because the fonts themselves are bad, but I suspect there may be cases where Rhino is still not doing a good job interpreting the data. Recently I was using Bahnschrift - the famous DIN font that is used on autobahn signs etc. - which I think is supplied as a Windows standard - and this is what happens:
It looks fine as text, but every time I need an outline, I have to CurveBoolean it.
I do have the whole family available in Rhino however, even if only one entry shows up in the fonts folder:
Hi,
@Helvetosaur
Dont try…
I have tried it in V7 and it looks ok, so now exported to V5.
Clearly V5 incapable.
Cheers
Steve
I don’t think than any of the postscript / outline / vector fonts that have been around for the last 3 - 4 decades have be regenerated because the quality is poor.
Rather, it is the same decades old font font put in a new wrapper that is used by the current OS, whatever that may be. Font vendors don’t care you might be using it for CNC cutting and blowing it up to 10 feet tall.