I don't even have a version of AutotCad yet. But, think I can get an eary copy inexpensively.
I want to make signs. I want to create engineering drawings (2D will do) of fonts. So, a font is the engineering drawing, or a large part of it.
How would you produce a drawing of a font in AutoCad?
I wonder if there are any apps that deal with this.
I've heard of TXTEXP. Don't know what that is. I suppose an app.
Thanks for any help forthcoming. Rich
So if I'm understanding you correctly... You want to take a font and "explode" that text to its geometry (lines, arcs, etc.).
Do you want to then edit the geometry these fonts and then export the geometry as a font? AFAIK, AutoCAD is the wrong tool for that.
Or do you just want the geometry of the fonts for other purposes?
I've found a simple solution, that I would have found yesterday if I had been using my tower PC rarther than my laptop, which won't run CAD programs very well.
I chose a Text Tool in a graphics program and scaled it to the size I want by draging a corner of the text graphic. Then I saved it as a DWG file. I then opened the file with a free Drafting program. It worked.