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How to use Chinese drawing in this software

locacyan
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How to use Chinese drawing in this software
I'm using librecad now, but I can't use Chinese to draw in the software
Because the software does not have a Chinese font file, and the software uses a font in the format 'lff', I browsed the Internet for a day and only found a ten-year-old font, which cannot run.
How can I use this software to draw Chinese now?

(librecad version: 2.2.0.1
System version: Windows11, 22h2)
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Re: How to use Chinese drawing in this software

dxli
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Chinese font support is needed. Please note LibreCAD uses vectorized fonts lff. A tool is provided by librecad to convert from ttf to lff.

WenQuanYi Chinese fonts can be found in the discussion of issue 1243
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues/1243

You may also download the old release of 2.1.3 which has WenQuanYi fonts included.

locacyan wrote
How to use Chinese drawing in this software
I'm using librecad now, but I can't use Chinese to draw in the software
Because the software does not have a Chinese font file, and the software uses a font in the format 'lff', I browsed the Internet for a day and only found a ten-year-old font, which cannot run.
How can I use this software to draw Chinese now?

(librecad version: 2.2.0.1
System version: Windows11, 22h2)
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Re: How to use Chinese drawing in this software

locacyan
Thank you very much for your reply, the font you gave is available, and i found the tool you said
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Re: How to use Chinese drawing in this software

ShaunKc
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You can download ttf2lff for windows from here: ttf2lff_1.zip

For my experience:

I download Noto Sans Traditional Chinese Font from google font

And use ttf2lff tool to convert NotoSansTC-Thin.ttf to notosantc-thin.lff
ttf2lff <ttf file> <lff file>

#The llf file name must be lowercase otherwise it will display a diamond when you use it.
Copy notosantc-thin.lff to C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreCAD\resources\fonts

#Tip
Set the Word Attributes Pen Width 0.13mm or up to you







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Re: How to use Chinese drawing in this software

dxli
We should add to our setting menu a way to download more fonts.
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Re: How to use Chinese drawing in this software

LordOfBikes
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As I suggested in GitHub:#1243
I recommend to add a link to https://dokuwiki.librecad.org/doku.php/community:fonts#additional in the Help menu and maybe a hint in Application Preferences Paths section? Or even in the MText options dialog?
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