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Hi,

 

 

I have a need to change some text so it is in the form of a polygon. I was looking at some functions with labellers and wondered if they can be output in a shapefile for example and be in polygonal form. 

 

 

I have seen a function MapTextLabeller which seems to output polygonal text, but its a paid plugin. Are there alternative methods?

 

 

Thanks.
Hi,

 

 

After creating a text geometry with the Labeller, you can use the TextStroker to transform the text into polygon.

 

 

Takashi
In addition to Takashi's advice, you could think of generalizing the boundaries of the resulting polygons afterwards. I experienced that the TextStroker converts the text to geometry well, but the lines appear a bit choppy. You could try to smoothe them with an algorithm from the Generalizer (e.g. NURBfit).

 

 

Kind regards

 

Thomas

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