If you want to trace your own handwriting to use for plotting or engraving, here is one way:
- Use calligraphr.com to make a font of your own handwriting. Make a template, add necessary fonts for your language. Print and write out all the letters. I used a pencil first, trying to get a good stroke and then a pen, which worked well. Scan - clean up, adjust baseline, size and spacing. Export it to your computer.
- Use inkscape with the Font stroke extension to convert your font to centerline font. First you must generate a template based on the handwritten font, and then you trace it using bitmap centerline tracing. Adjust the fonts accordingly and change id in xml to letter-name. Big a=A, small a=a, and so on. You can use accented letters and all the strange signs as well.When you are finished you can “generate font data”. The font is stored as svg in the extension subfolder.
- the svg-font can be used both in Hershey-text tool and the extensions “Render text” (works very well - especially with the “selected box” function)
The extension creator has several videos, I found this one the most useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsWAPx3y_g&list=PLxsh4i5F_h9E1pJDMRb4mfunzDpq2U2Ku&index=5
Inkscape 1.3.3 seems not to work with the extension, so you might have to downgrade to 1.2.2. (you can unzip it in a separate folder straight from the zip file, without installing)