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   Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:22:50 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

   It seems to be impossible to find a version of OCR-B, the typeface, that actually is reliably monospaced, meaning that 10 characters, regardless of which characters, always take up the exact same space. This makes aligning characters next to impossible :( This example in Inkscape uses https://github.com/rastislavcore/ocr-b/tree/master/dist

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     Arby (arby@ruhr.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 18:40:42 JST Arby

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     @jwildeboer Ich bin nicht sicher, ob die Messung korrekt ist. Monospace bedeutet ja erstmal nur, dass der Abstand vom linken Rand eines Buchstaben zum linken Rand des nächsten Buchstabens ("Dickte") immer gleich ist. Die Zeichen selbst können theoretisch in der Breite abweichen.
     Wie man ja auch in deinem Beispiel sehen kann: Das B ist definitiv breiter als das I oder das J. Was man auch sehen kann: Der Abstand ist nicht 2,54, die Zeichen wandern in ihrem "Rahmen" immer weiter nach rechts.

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     Petr Tesarik (ptesarik@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:06:18 JST Petr Tesarik

     @jwildeboer But you know how this is usually solved in practice, don't you?
     Break up your text into individual glyphs and then align each glyph separately on a 2.54mm boundary…

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     Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor: (0x58@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 23:44:35 JST Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:

     @jwildeboer Working on your passports counterfeiting skills? :lolsob:

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     Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor: (0x58@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 00:16:11 JST Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:

     @jwildeboer Practice makes perfect.

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     Matija Šuklje (hook@toot.si)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 00:48:54 JST Matija Šuklje

     • Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:

     @jwildeboer, if you come up with a whole tutorial, I would be quite interested.

     @0x58

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     Matija Šuklje (hook@toot.si)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 01:07:50 JST Matija Šuklje

     • Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:

     @jwildeboer, ah, sweet, thanks!

     I guess I really should subscribe (again) to your blog’s RSS/Atom feed.

     @0x58