How does QCAD explode texts? Why do I get splines, arcs and lines and sometimes very small segments?
Exploding Texts
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Exploding Texts
From a QCAD user:
Re: Exploding Texts
The underlying geometry of a glyph from a TTF font depends on the definition of that font, i.e. how the glyphs were created and are stored in the TTF file.
Glyphs in TTF fonts are defined as a collection of splines. If a spline happens to represent an arc or a line (within a tolerance), QCAD converts it into an arc or a line on the fly.
For the next release, I've added a preference for the explode tool to explode texts to closed polylines instead. Splines are converted to polylines with arc segments. You can try this (experimental) change by updating the following files of your QCAD installation:
scripts/Modify/Explode/Explode.js
scripts/Modify/Explode/PreferencesPage.ui
Glyphs in TTF fonts are defined as a collection of splines. If a spline happens to represent an arc or a line (within a tolerance), QCAD converts it into an arc or a line on the fly.
For the next release, I've added a preference for the explode tool to explode texts to closed polylines instead. Splines are converted to polylines with arc segments. You can try this (experimental) change by updating the following files of your QCAD installation:
scripts/Modify/Explode/Explode.js
scripts/Modify/Explode/PreferencesPage.ui