Posted by ubruhin on Sep 13, 2017; 8:17pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Some-questions-about-the-LFF-fonts-tp5715159p5715319.html

Hi Ries,

Many thanks for your response!
Now I have some more information which helps to decide how to proceed with my project :)

R. van Twisk wrote

gerber file formats (does that even exist still???)

Yes, (unfortunately) Gerber is still the de facto standard for PCB production data, and it is even still under active development ;) And because Gerber does not have any support for fonts, we need to convert texts to polylines. But TTF is extremely complex and thus a pain to convert it into polylines, so a simple stroke font makes sense here.

R. van Twisk wrote

A stand aline parser can welcome, at least as a lib??

Of course it would be developed as a library. I would need to integrate it into my C++ project then.

Regards,
Urban