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F-Engrave tries to use “psyco” for speedup. Don’t know if psyco is available for mac. It is also unmaintained. Maybe the script could be improved with pypy for all platforms. Any python pros out there?
try:
import psyco
psyco.full()
sys.stdout.write("(Psyco loaded: You have the fastest F-Engrave.)\n")
except:
pass
I can get Fengrave to run, but I can’t get it to use PNG files (and it doesn’t read my text from the DXF files from Inkscape). I don’t know enough to figure out how to make this work on my Mac…?
Text in DXFs would require the exact me font to be available to both the DXF app, and F-Engrave — I just made a custom font and did the cutting from that.
I found that using Pixelmator I can export to a BMP file and F-Engrave will open that. I also didn’t have any luck with PNG files but I didn’t put much effort into trying to get them to work. For the few carves I had to do it was easier to convert my image to BMP.
Hi. I have made a bundled macOS app with all needed files in it using Playtypus. Included is the current f-engrave-162.py python script and all compiled binaries (potrace & ttf2cxf_stream).
Hi. Open the settings window. There you can define where the fonts are located, normally under /Library/Fonts. Another solution is to edit the config file under /Users/YOURUSERNAME/config.ngc.
Hm… Everything is fine on my side… maybe the included compiled ttf2cxf_stream is not working on your mac. On terminal you can “cd” into it, for example with cd /Applications/FEngraveMac.app/Contents/Resources. There are the included binaries. With ./ttf2cxf_stream you can start/test the ttf2cxf_stream bin. Something like this should appear:
Usage: ttf2cxf <options> <ttf file> <cxf file>
ttf file: An existing True Type Font file
cxf file: The CXF font file to create
options are:
-s seg_arc_limit Arc angle approximation limit (double)
-a author Author of the font. Preferably full name and e-mail address
-l letter spacing Letter spacing (float)
-w word spacing Word spacing (float)
-f line spacing factor Default is 1.0 (float)
-e enable extended characters
If that works have you installed ttf fonts? I have no clue…
I had that same error on my work Mac yesterday. Just tested today on my Mac at home and it let me save the fonts. Will potentially test the terminal stuff on my work computer if I have time to see if it’ll resolve the issue for me there as well.
All this is Greek to me. Read them all and I’m very confused. I’m not big computer guy. I’m plug and play. I am trying to get my CNC to engrave on aluminum. I was told to use F engrave. I need lots of help lol.