I’ve been using Inkscape to create vector art for plotting, but I used to use Estlcam, and it had some really cool single stroke fonts. My plotter’s Inkscape extension can render text in custom single stroke fonts and I was hoping to use the Estlcam fonts:
Does anyone know if they’re available in TTF/OTF or Linux-compatible font formats anywhere? I’m particularly interested in Estlcam CAD, Estlcam Geo 1, and Estlcam Segment.
C:\ProgramData\Estlcam\V12\Fonts contains .dat files and a German readme. The readme ends with “Download DXF raw data, Estlcam import scripts, and original TTF fonts:
https://www.estlcam.de/downloads/Estlcam_Fonts.zip”. While the .dxf files are organized grids of font glyphs, I’m not finding any way to get from there to a font file.
…True single-line fonts can be single lines, which will be rendered as a closed shape, or overlapping lines that look like a single line (click/drag nodes to see they aren’t). The former has to be edited to remove added connector lines, the later seems to work fine in Estlcam (some programs will follow the overlapping lines/take two passes). In Inkscape the first step for both is Object > Fill and stroke too remove fill and add stroke paint (the 2x lines are initially invisible). Path > Object to path (text > vector) before sending to Estlcam and to node edit/drag.
An old free single line fonts page with a better description: Single-line fonts
A working CamBam fonts page: The CAMBam Stick Fonts Alternate Download Page
