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Title: Arranging letters to form words....
Post by: Danny on June 22, 2010, 10:19:38 am

I wished I had the bucks to buy the software to design projects....BUT....
Can anyone tell me how to format a word where it can be cut out on the scrollsaw?  I have serveral requests for using Steve's Nascar design but they all want the drivers name instead of the car.  Any help I wud LOVE.  Thanks

Title: Re: Arranging letters to form words....
Post by: Russ C on June 22, 2010, 10:26:00 am

Inkscape, An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

It is free and I use it to design my patterns. It will do what you want and much more.  8)  8)  8)

Here is the link:
http://www.inkscape.org/ (http://www.inkscape.org/)

Also Travis over at Scroll Saw Village has a tutorial on how to use Inkscape.
 8)  8)  8)

Title: Re: Arranging letters to form words....
Post by: sp_343 on June 22, 2010, 01:20:10 pm

You could also do a internet search for "free fonts".  There are many sites where you can download a font that would work to cut out.  Then just open a word document, type what you want in the size you need and add it to a blank pattern.

www.dafont.com

Check that out...

Title: Re: Arranging letters to form words....
Post by: Dawie on June 23, 2010, 02:26:27 pm

Nice site SP.
David

Title: Re: Arranging letters to form words....
Post by: skip on June 23, 2010, 08:51:02 pm

Steve Good  has a scroll saw printer program  thats works good for printing names