Oct 11, 2017

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Chris Jackson
I'm wanting to see font support in OpenJSCAD - especially for the jscad-atom plugin. Is there anyone working on this? There are a couple of tickets in github, but it looks stalled.
I have a clone of the BlocksCAD repo that is based on OpenJSCAD and implements font support with opentype.js but the re-organized jscad has changed a lot, so crossing it back over isn't trivial (to me, anyway).
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Jeff Gay
Hi Chris,

If you understand how BlocksCAD implemented support then adding the same to openjscad.org - OpenJSCAD.org should not be difficult.

Mark and I can answer any questions while you work on the changes.
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Oct 11, 2017
Chris Jackson
My best understanding of BlocksCAD's uber object Blockscad, holds the fonts (fonts, fontList, fontName) provides a loader (loadFonts, loadFont, loadFontThenRender) (from text.js) There is a helper in viewer.js (Blockscad.pathToPoints) and the rest of the useful stuff is in openscad-openjscad-translator PrimitiveModules Font prototype.
So where should I put stuff? I am guessing openjscad/io for the load, core for the pathToPoints and the Font object in csg primatives2d ? Or would a font object be strictly an openjscad thing that should stay there?
Plus I can see something needing to happen in scad-api?