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Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 12.24.35.png - Browser: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 12.24.27.png - No 'font retention'. Inkscape: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 12.25.18.png - That is wonderful insofar as re both size and font everything looks the way it did in the text field. Now. let's try and import that SV...

Well, that certainly works for Bulgarian:
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Although 'font retention' does not seem to be there when I open the result in Inkscape:
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Let's live dangerously and try a bit of Sanskrit in Devanagari script:
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And this in Inkscape:
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So, just to see how far things would stretch I tried this:
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And got this in Inkscape:
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So, NO, I am sorry, that does not "do it for me".

Wondering if the thing took umbrage at my complex font I thought I would try this:
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Using an extremely 'pedestrian' font.

I got this in a browser:
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And so: - Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 10.44.35.png - on mouseUp put fld "f1" into tText put fld "fHeader" into tHeader put fld "fTextStart1" into tTextStart1 put the textFont of fld "f1" into fld "fTextStart2" put fld "fTextStart2" into tTextStart2 put fld "fTextStart3" into tTextStart3 put the textSiz...

Oh, Bernd: I almost love you: and the thing that prevents that is the frustration I feel from wrestling with a robot for about 4 hours.

Cripes: the robot just suggested code containing this:

No they are not. I am a LC programmer and i actually tried LC on GPT4.

I apologise.

OK, OK, OK: After 25 "cycles" with ChatGPT 4 I am still getting a line of question marks instead of: - Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 19.25.32.png - I have typed 'Over use of quotation marks" 15 times; each time it has corrected that (but does NOT 'remember'). Tries the same code modifications round and r...

This is obviously "off" as I would expect an SVG file containing text to look something like this: <svg width="201.402" height="76.101" viewBox="0 0 201.402 76.101" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g id="svgGroup" stroke-linecap="round" fill-rule="evenodd" font-size="9pt" stroke="#000" stroke-wid...

Not really . . .
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If one could export text from a field in LiveCode to an SVG image this would result in a scaleable image of text that could be fully portable without end-users having to have access to the originating font . . . https://github.com/danmarshall/google-font-to-svg-path - Screenshot 2024-05-03 at 17.18....

And version 5.1.2 is much, much better:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jw3gmicv ... kkv2r&dl=0
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Anyone know what it is for?

I would suppose it is a template, and a clone of it is made for each script editor an end-user 'calls' to fill with code.

This stack

Which stack?

stack "revNewScriptEditor" or

stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"