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On 12/13/2016 03:27 PM, Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I have made a bit of progress in automatically converting an outline
> into a set of offset paths, but the end caps of the ascending and
> descending limbs still need a bit of work, particularly for serif
> fonts....

While you are thinking in this mode of converting outline to centerline based,
do you think your code is close to usable to make a trace-from-outlines importer?
That is, not importing fonts, but circuit traces from a raster scanned image, that
is converted to outlines, maybe svg, maybe postscript?

If the code created many short segments of different widths and seemed useless
as is, that kind of "scanned in" result could become useful with pcb-rnd's
every trace segment has attributes features.  One could make programs that
averaged out some of the noise, and chose a single value for a wavering line's center,
and a single value for thickness also.  Then the number of segments would go drastically down,
and some human editing could clean it up quick.