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Looking for fixed width font for use in model using Text
don_felton
Member Posts: 6 ✭
Courier Prime seems to be fixed width but I had to start at the top and try each one.
Maybe there are others but I gave up once I had found one.
Can someone point me at where the font properties are documented?
This would also help when looking for fonts capable of Bold and Italic as well as Fixed Width.
I was expecting some sort of table in the doc's.
Search did not seem to help but maybe that is just me.
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It's not quite what you asked for but the custom feature Text path https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/23648/new-feature-text-path#latest
does more or less what you want. Individual characters are all spaced at intervals along the provided path, so they will act like a monospaced font (the Nth character in a string will always be centered at the Nth position, regardless of what the string actually is and regardless of the font used.
In this example image, there are 3 separate Text path features, each writing a string of characters to the line. Because the lines are the same length, the computed locations are the same IF THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS IS THE SAME, so it lays out each "text group" like a monospaced font (regardless of what the font is). For example, Ive written the letters of the alphabet in three groups. The first two have 10 characters, so all the positions line up. The third group has only 6 characters, so it evenly spaces those along the line.
Maybe it will help, maybe not.
Related: If you need to rapidly look at different fonts and see how they render, the example included in the fontpicker document may be of use:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/23475/new-featurescript-predicate-fontpicker