Re: Generating User handwriting fonts

Hi Swayne,
I'm the original author of the Hershey Text extension. I've been rewriting Hershey Text with some major changes and a new version is almost ready. (See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/merge_requests/25#note_145678292 for discussion.)

The changes that are underway do not overlap with the ideas of generating handwriting fonts from PDF documents, and I expect the current set of changes to be complete (and ready for you to build upon) by the GSoC start date. I am not involved with Inkscape's GSoC program, but wanted you to be aware of other work underway and for you to know that we all welcome your efforts.

-Windell

> On Mar 2, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Swayamjeet Swain <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> My name is Swayamjeet Swain, am from IIT ROORKEE, India.
> I am wishing to apply for GSOC 2019 and have been working quite a bit towards it. I have been using Inkscape quite extensively, especially for CNC and plotting tasks and have been making extensive changes to the current Hershey's text extension available in Inkscape. 
> 
> I have indeed expanded it to take in whole PDF documents and generate single line texts and tweaked the fonts library to make my handwriting's unique font. (Fun part is that I submit my practicals and college assignments by using a plotter which I made and generating gcodes for these single line fonts, as the fonts we generally use are incompatible (no one writes like that).) 
> 
> I am adept at python,c and c++ , and I am looking forward to make a project which can generate handwriting fonts after taking in written alphabet's image from the user.
> 
>  But I am indeed a bit unsure if this is an acceptable project to be included as an feature or am I moving towards making another extension (and if that too works). I have already built Inkscape and have been going through the code. Please suggest how I should proceed.
> 
> Thanks 
> Swayamjeet (Swayne)
> IIT Roorkee
> 
> P.S. This mail feel like bursting a big bubble. Thanks to the other aspirants for the confidence. 
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