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11.7 Hershey Text
Inkscape includes a special application that we developed called Hershey Text,
which is capable of typesetting text in a small number of included stroke-based
fonts.
When you use Hershey Text, it takes editable text (that is, text that you type) and
replaces it with rendered stroke-font text: a set of vector paths that the pen can
follow. Once you have rendered text into paths, it can no longer be edited as
though it were text. (The paths can be edited with Inkscape’s path editing tools.)
You can find Hershey Text in the menu at
Extensions > AxiDraw Utilities > Hershey Text.
To use Hershey Text, start with a document that contains text objects. Select
the Render tab, and choose a font face from the pop-up menu. When you click
Apply, it will render all text elements on your page into the selected stroke-based
typeface. If you would like to convert only certain text elements, click Apply with
just those elements selected.
If the Preserve original text box is checked, then the original text elements on
the page will be preserved even when you click Apply. If it is unchecked, then the
original font elements will be removed once rendered.
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