Text2svg

Build svg path data from font file and text.

So, This tool can convert text to svg outline by font.

Using by freetype API.

$ text2svg "Hello, World\!" --font="/Library/Fonts/Times New Roman.ttf" > test.svg
$ open test.svg -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app

Option

$ text2svg --help
Usage: text2svg [options]
    -f, --font FONT                  font file path (require)
        --text-align ALIGN           text align left,right or center (default left)
        --encoding ENCODING          input text encoding (default utf-8)
        --bold                       embolden outline (default false)
        --italic                     oblique outline (default false)
        --attribute STRING           decorate options (default nil)(e.g. fill="red" stroke-width="100")

Feature

• Support kerning shift
• Support multi line
• Support decorated font
• Support .ttf and .otf font file (using by FreeType)
• And support text-align, bold and italic effects

Ruby API

require 'text2svg'
puts Text2svg('Hello, World!', font: "/Library/Fonts/Times New Roman.ttf", text_align: :left, bold: true)
#=> "<svg ...>"

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'text2svg'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install text2svg

Require

• libfreetype

see also http://www.freetype.org/

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.