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I don’t think you will find a Microsoft solution to this. But that Python script can take in SVG. On the other hand you have easy speech to text software. I am
by IgorPartola 6y ago
I don’t think you will find a Microsoft solution to this. But that Python script can take in SVG. On the other hand you have easy speech to text software. I am not super familiar with text layout tools, but I am almost certain there are multiple approaches you can take to generate a paginated SVG from text with a given font and text file. HTML to PDF via wkhtmltopdf can certainly do that, and I suspect GraphicMagick can take a PDF and spit out a path only SVG.
This isn’t the fault of 3D printers and their firmware. This is lack of understanding which parts of the tool chain do what. You wouldn’t expect a regular laser printer to recognize your speech, right? Most of them don’t do fonts either. And every single printer uses a different set of firmware and a different driver. By comparison, 3D printers use only about 5 common variants of GCode, of which GRBL and Marlin compatible ones are the most common by far. You can use multiple different slicers to produce tool paths for any given printer and printers from multiple manufacturers use compatible or identical firmware, guaranteeing that you don’t need to update drivers because that concept doesn’t exist. 3D printers came later and were able to avoid the many mistakes that 2d printers made. Everything is open source, everything is compatible and kept up to date, and even the hardware is abstracted away: you can swap in a 32 bit board for an 8 bit board, wire it up, change your architecture target, compile, and your printer will run as before. Have you ever tried putting a new board from an HP into a Canon printer? I doubt you’d ever be able to do that.