So much quicker than my 2012 i5 Mac Mini with 16Gb of ram.īut what I HATE - is the all the fonts that show up - none of the names are much of hint about what families they belong to - are they Times or Palatino related, or like Helvetica / Arial, seriphed or not (some have sans in the name - which is a hint) and many of them just have names that indicate which non-Latin character set they also support. Installed Inkscape and Rosetta and it flies. I’ve taken delivery of a M1 8Gb Mac Mini today. So much so - I probably won’t bother even trying to find a CorelDraw that might work on OS X (probably haven’t done an OS X port since the PowerPC era), and I won’t bother with Adobe Illustrator’s massive learning curve. EggBot repository, historical home of Hershey Text software old versions may be found in repository history.I spend a fair bit of time in and out of Inkscape - it’s one of my favourite OSS apps - it’s about 80% as powerful as CorelDraw (that other 80% is Corel’s mulptiple page document support, and unparalled bitmap tracing to vector), and I can do just about everything I used to do in Corel, in Inkscape….Hershey Font source files from Jeff Epler.Opentype SVG Font Editor from MicrosoftĪdditional links of possible interest.Adobe type tools for making opentype SVG fonts.

Hershey Text v 3.0 is also included standard with the AxiDraw software and EggBot software installers. To install it manually, copy the two files 'hershey.py', 'hershey.inx,' and the 'svg_fonts' directory into your Inkscape extensions folder, replacing any like-named files there. You can download Hershey Text v 3.0 from the repository. For Mac, install Inkscape 0.92.2, and for Windows install Inkscape 0.92.4.

Hershey Text v 3.0 requires Inkscape version 0.92. 4 Additional links of possible interestĪ complete user guide for Hershey Text is available for download here (1 MB PDF document).

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