Text for Eggbot

To make text in Inkscape, you can use the Text tool to make text in the "obvious" way: Select the text tool, click somewhere on your page to indicate where you want to put the text, and begin typing to enter the text. Before sending the text to the Eggbot, select from the menu Path > Object To Path to convert it from editable text to curves (paths) that the Eggbot can draw.

To create fills for outline fonts, see Creating filled regions.

Another method is to use the Hershey Text extension, which is included with the Eggbot software. It makes single-line fonts that draw very efficiently and cleanly. You can read more about using it at Evil Mad Scientist. Note that this page says that the Hershey Text extension is included with Inkscape, but the version included with the Eggbot software is newer. For example, it allows the generation of a test page of all the outline fonts.

A couple of other text rendering tools are available in the EggBot Extensions:

• Name Poem -- Render name poems (acrostics) using fonts suitable for use with the Eggbot
• Spiral Wrapped Text -- Gently spiral text around and around an egg