Newstroke Font Readme
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Newstroke is a stroke (plotter) font originally designed for KiCAD.
Font author: Vladimir Uryvaev (vovanius@bk.ru)
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 - CKJ characters
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
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 6 or newer (https://www.kicad.org/download/) - for glyph editing
Python 3.10 or newer - for font generation
Usage
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* Edit glyps with KiCAD 6 or newer EESchema library editor.
* Add/modify Unicode positions to charlist.
* Generate font using following command line:
python fontconv.py
License
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Released under CC0 licence.
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