Inkstitch - Letters to Font. Adding pre-digitized fonts to inkstitch lettering tool.

[@rosalyncollins2743]

What if your purchased font come with different sizes. For example, Arial 3.5 inch, Arial 2.5 inch, Arial 1.5 inch. Break out the sizes and create a folder for each size?

[@LowTechLinux]

That is what I would recommend.

[@Mr.Trailer79]

I cant find anything to say. You are BIG and GOOD man.

[@babyblissisere1]

amazing!! thank you so much!

[@KayciOConnor]

for the life of me i cannot get the font to pop up in my lettering tool for inkscape i folowed all steps double checked my directory and everything.

[@LowTechLinux]

is it giving you any kind of error message?

[@KayciOConnor]

no error codes at all@@LowTechLinux

[@jamiebgoode]

me too, kind sir. i am running on macOS Sonoma 14.1 and have installed Inkscape 1.3.2 and the extension. i have renamed files (ie V.pes).. but they dont show up :( the path for me was: Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Font Management > Letters to font... any help or pointers will be greatly and kindly appreciated!!! thanks so much, Dale et al!

[@disneywithus90]

@@jamiebgoode check the layers tab and see if they were made invisible by clicking the eyeball icon on the right.

[@sarahs6962]

I have followed all the directions. The font shows up in the list of fonts, but when I go to actual use it, it doesn't show up. I'll write a word and it hit apply and close. It says in the layer panel that there is the word I typed. But the page is blank. The eye is open so its not hidden. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.

[@LowTechLinux]

If you would like please send the font SVG to me at [e-mail] and I'll see if I can figure it out. Even better if you can zip that font folder and send that instead.

[@raulterrazasreza1635]

This is very helpful. you are great! love your videos.

[@LowTechLinux]

Thank you so much 🥰

[@rrstites]

Thank you for this. I just discovered your YT site and this is very helpful. I do have a question though: Can I add "trims" to my converted font? Thanks!

[@LowTechLinux]

Yes. The way to do a trim on a satin stitch letter is select the last object (top most object of the letter) and apply the trim only to that. Make sure it's the last object stitched for that particular letter.

[@renevoyage]

Super 👍 Tkanks

[@kenoguy9592]

Awesome videos. Really helping me out. A couple of questions regarding adding pre digitized fonts. To add a bit more space between letters do you just leave a little space before it when placing it on the baseline? Related, if it is a script font, how would overlap the connecting tails? Hope to get a feel for that before I start adding my purchased fonts. Thanks again!

[@LowTechLinux]

I haven't actually tested spacing. I usually just move the letters manually to where I need them. I believe on a premade font with the lettering tool, the font is preset to spacing (but you can still move the letters manually).

[@kenoguy9592]

@@LowTechLinux Thanks for the response. I did go ahead and try some fonts. It looks like moving them on the baseline has no effect. The fonts I got didn’t include any kerning info. It isn’t that tough to move them manually. Actually for the fonts I got, spacing isn’t consistent even when adjusting globally, so moving them manually is the best bet. Thanks again!

[@jeffbarnum1828]

Hey Dale, Great tutorial! I'm stuck though. When I go into "Ink/ Stitch Lettering" and select my new font, I type out any word ("Stuck" for instance) and only one letter appears - and it's not even "S"... If I change the font, then the entire word "Stuck" appears. What did I do wrong?

[@LowTechLinux]

Interesting. Would you be able to zip that font folder and send it to me [e-mail] so I can have a look?

[@tessanolan]

Hi! I love your videos, they're super helpful! I'm having an issue - I'm saving it with the right arrow and everything (even searched for an existing font to make sure I have the correct one). But it's still saying "This font has no available font variant. Please update or remove the font." Please help :)

[@LowTechLinux]

Send the SVG file to me at [e-mail] and I'll take a look

[@shareasmile2791]

Thank you for your tutorial. I have encountered below error after saving the new font. This font has no available font variant. Please update or remove the font.

[@LowTechLinux]

Sorry about the delay, that's usually because of not using the right 'right arrow'. Find a pre built inkstitch font and copy the right arrow name, rename your font and paste the right arrow you copied as the name.

[@kaylarieves7216]

You are awesome!!!! Thank you!

[@LowTechLinux]

Happy to help!

[@maiadominguez8055]

I followed step by step, but after "Generate JSON" I'm not getting any results in the lettering panel. I've copied and pasted your arrow, and tried a few times. No dice. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? I'm on a Mac if that helps.

[@maiadominguez8055]

I finally figured it out! I was pointing my DIRECTORY to the font's subfolder. I had Docs > Fonts > A Holiday Story (that's the font's name) but I needed to point it to Docs > Fonts

[@LowTechLinux]

Excellent. Glad you were able to fix it. Feels good, doesn't it? Lol. 👍😁

[@skygarcia4886]

Hello! followed all the steps but isnt showing up when go to lettering in the inkstitch lettering preview.

[@LowTechLinux]

This is usually because of not using the right 'right arrow' icon. Try renaming your →.svg, but copy and paste the arrow I have here as the name of your svg and see if that works.

[@bettybiad7357]

I bought a digitized font off etsy and I am trying to follow your steps. When I try to open in, inkstitch is not seeing the PES files to upload. It seems to be saved the correct way that you say they need to be saved as. Thank you for your videos

[@LowTechLinux]

Thank you :) Ok, by the numbers. 1. unzip the font file (if needed) 2. make sure the fonts are all in one folder and named properly (i.e. A.pes, a.pes, etc) 3. use inkstitch > letters to font, select pes, select the folder. 4. switch to the objects view (Object > object) to see the object layers of each font. 5. make sure there aren't duplicate names (i.e. not two "k's" for example) 6. save as right arrow . svg (→.svg) 7. create json 8. it should now work. I need to know which one of these numbers you're stuck on so I can help better.

[@Tylerrussell212]

I’m working off a MacBook currently, I can get as far as the json step. But it will not come into the lettering preview anyway I do it. Im not sure what I’ve done wrong. And no one else has a video I can find similar for mac. 🥲

[@alexturner5261]

Did you ever figure it out? I am running into the same problem.@@Tylerrussell212

[@topdeckjesus6163]

Love your videos

[@LowTechLinux]

Thank you

[@topdeckjesus6163]

@@LowTechLinux my wife and bought a machine thinking it would just be dragging an dropping jpegs. If it wasnt for your videos we would be lost.

[@LowTechLinux]

Thank you. Glad I could help 👍

[@homeschoolers2]

Hi, I did all the steps correctly. But the font still won't appear on the list of lettering. What should I do?

[@LowTechLinux]

usually this is because the right arrow.svg isn't the correct right arrow. Select this right arrow → and select copy. Rename your right arrow file and paste the copied → as the name so it appears →.svg. see if that works and let me know.

[@homeschoolers2]

@@LowTechLinux Hey! I was able to do it! Thank you for that arrow!!!.... BUT, the screenshot of the preview font doesn't appear on the list of lettering, just the name. I even resized it. Any suggestions?

[@LowTechLinux]

Ok, just to make sure. You named your screenshot preview.png. It's 300x20, and it's in the same folder as the font and json?

[@homeschoolers2]

@@LowTechLinux So that's why! I renamed it like you stated above and it worked! Thank you so much!!! Another question....the font I bought came in different sizes. If I want to upload all of them in inkstitch, can I name them as Font0_5 (for 0.5 inches), Font_1(for 1 inch), Font1_5 (for 1.5 inches)...and so on?

[@LowTechLinux]

As long as they have a slightly different name like you suggested it should work just fine.

[@mychautu5766]

Thank you so much ! really appreciate it. I am using Windows. How can I save a second svg with the arrow on the file name? Thank you!!!

[@LowTechLinux]

The easiest way is to copy/paste this arrow: → In windows, to make the "right" arrow is hold Alt and type 2, 6

[@mychautu5766]

@@LowTechLinux Thank you so much!

[@sdavidrose]

@@LowTechLinux Hello! I was watching your video last night, and I must have missed it, but I don't understand why there was saving a file with the → arrow as a file name.

[@LowTechLinux]

You only need to save a file with a right arrow if you are making your own custom font library. The right arrow indicates to inkstitch to stitch from left to right.

[@sdavidrose]

@@LowTechLinux So, then, could a Left, Up, and Down arrow be used for stitching R -> L, Bottom -> Top, and Top -> Bottom? Not that i want to do this, but I want to understand if that functionality is available.

[@FirstYearHippie]

I followed all the steps and it shows up in my lettering area but when I type something with the font, no preview is coming up and the layer has nothing in it. Any suggestions?

[@LowTechLinux]

usually when the lettering tool isn't working for a custom font it has the wrong "right arrow" as it's name, try renaming it and copy/paste this right arrow for it's name. →