Newstroke Font Readme
=====================
Newstroke is a stroke (plotter) font originally designed for KiCAD.
Font author: Vladimir Uryvaev ([email protected])
Project homepage: http://vovanium.ru/sledy/newstroke
Files
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font.kicad_sym - main glyph library in KiCAD library format
symbol.kicad_sym - glyph library for most math, tech and other symbols
CJK_symbol.kicad_sym - CJK symbols
CJK_wide*.kicad_sym - CJK characters in ranges
katakana.kicad_sym - Japanese script
hiragana.kicad_sym - Japanese script
half_full.kicad_sym - U+FF00 half- and full-width forms
charlist.txt - unicode glyph map list
fontconv.py - 'compiling' .kicad_sym files to C source used by KiCAD
../../common/newstroke_font.cpp
- C source with the font, generated by fontconv.py
gen_all_codepoints.py - Make a string of all codepoints
font.kicad_sch - All codepoints in a schematic (can be used to check font renders)
Other Files
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old/*.lib - the fonts that were originally used to generate .kicad_sym files
old/font_draft1.lib - old draft glyph library with the metrics from Hersheys Simplex
old/font.pro - KiCAD project
Requirements
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KiCAD 8 or newer (https://www.kicad.org/download/) - for glyph editing
Python 3.10 or newer - for font generation
Usage
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* Edit glyphs with KiCAD 8 or newer EESchema library editor.
* Add/modify Unicode positions to charlist.
* Run the `newstroke_generate_cpp` CMake target
* Internally, this runs:
python fontconv.py
Checking changes
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You can use the font.kicad_sch file to show all codepoints.
If you export this file before and after your change, you can use the `diff-pdf`
tool to see the changes:
```
../build/kicad/kicad-cli sch export pdf ../tools/newstroke/font.kicad_sch -o old.pdf
```
Make your changes, rebuild KiCad. Remember to use your newly-built `kicad-cli`!
```
../build/kicad/kicad-cli sch export pdf ../tools/newstroke/font.kicad_sch -o new.pdf
diff-pdf old.pdf new.pdf -g --view
```
License
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Released under CC0 licence.
Seth Hillbrand
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