Posted by dellus on Jul 19, 2023; 12:06pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Another-Font-Conversion-Experiment-tp5723057p5723067.html

I hatch by word. It seems to help against artefacts if you hatch by letter, though.
You can have the unexploded text on one layer, copy it to an other, filled text layer and explode and hatch it there. This way you can edit the text if needed.
Only a workaround for drawing titles etc, if you desperately want good looking text. For dimensions stick fonts are good enough.
The method of filling the font with lines is much more convenient of course. But as you say it slows down rendering, and also bloats the font and drawing file size.
Using a lff font consisting of lines and arcs out of your production probably is smaller in file size than librecad's usual line bits only. Maybe also the resulting hatching will be.
So if you manage to find an open source helvetica - like font, convert it to lff and provide it here, it might be a welcome addition to LibreCAD's fonts.