Inkscape work around for single line font!

[riogirl71]

Ok so this has been driving me crazy cause I want to be able to write with my pen holder and I don't have Corel or MTC. I wanted something simple and single line. So here is what I did, I know it is a lot of steps but it worked well for me.

1- open inkscape and typed whatever phrase you want in the font you want, i used Adios font
2- export selection as a png (i used 400 resolution)
3- go to http://www.roitsystems.com/cgi-bin/autotrace/tracer.pl
4- upload your png and click the box "trace font centerline"
5- click at bottom to retrieve and save as svg
6 - open on inkscape
7- edit nodes to your liking

This is by no means perfect, play with your settings and fonts, edit nodes, it does give you a close starting point if you want a single stroke word!

[Suzan]

Thank you so much, this will be super great. I just went there and it works easy

[Thyme]

That looks really good!

[Elizabeth]

That is so cool! Thanks.

[Tyler]

Awesome - thanks for figuring that out!

[Suzan]

You are going to have people go crazy over this one. Great job

[Retta]

I knew there had to be a way. Way to go!

[riogirl71]

You are all too kind, just glad I could be of any help when you all have helped me sooooo very much here!!!!

[PennyDuncan]

That is FANTASTIC!!!! very CLEVER!!!!