Curves back to text

Hi everyone, maybe my question sounds kind of stupid :)

I have the following problem: about 15 days ago I -absently- exploded all the text in the most challenging drawing I have ever realized... then I kept adding new text every day until now... and now I have to change almost all the text I did type but... it's made of curves!

So I was wondering if anyone has ever had similar problems solved by a gh definition

In case no-one has ever had similar troubles (I think you all here are smarter than me :P) how would you proceed to create a similar definition, given all the text has same dimension and font?

I would:

a) create a set with all the possible character-curve in that Font
b) create an identical set with the same characters as type

c) compare this set with every given text-curve in the drawing (issue: the number 8 is made of 3 different curve .___. same as letter B... A has 2, as D, R, O, P, p and so on...)

d) list item from set 'b' using pattern I get from 'c'

e) evenctually -this is a moonshot in the moonshot- concatenate characters at 'd' based on proximity of different character-curves (to get "ABC" as a whole text, instead of "A" "B" and "C" as separate instances)

It sounds kind of challenging!

...maybe I'm better start re-writing text NOW as it could EASILY take me a couple of days to get things done... :)

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by mark zirinsky on August 25, 2015 at 9:17pm

perhaps if you highlight all of the 'text' input curves, then use the gh component 'join all possible curves", you will have your text back

Permalink Reply by Ale Inno on August 27, 2015 at 5:28am

Thanks Mark!

Your hint somehow inspired me to use lenght ranges to recognise characters, and I think can be a huge step forward! -I can ignore lenghts like the inside of 8 D A P 0...

Trying it now!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 26, 2015 at 1:27am