[Cialug] OT-ish: really large font

Colin Burnett cmlburnett at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 17:51:04 CDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:16 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
> Somewhat Off Topic...
>
> I want to print some very large letters, up to about 10" tall, that I want
> to use as stencils.
>
> What's the quickest / easiest method y'all can think of? I did a quick try
> in a couple of programs like Open Office, and maybe Inkscape, but didn't
> have much luck. Not that I'm much of an expert in either of those. :)

In Inkscape write your text then do Path > Object to Path.  It renders
your text as a path and that should scale to whatever.


Colin


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