/text_to_polygon

Tool to convert text to polygons, for the QGIS Processing toolbox

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

Convert text to polygons in QGIS

This plugin adds an entry to the Processing toolbox, allowing you to convert a piece of text to a layer of polygons.

Screenshot of generated text

Why?

I needed this functionality, and thought it would be a good opportunity to integrate it into the Processing Toolbox. Note that this plugin has not yet been published in QGIS Plugin Repository, but perhaps it will be.

Instruction for developers

To install the plugin for development, you can clone the repository and manage the various actions with the Makefile provided.

Note that you need to have:

  • pyqt5-dev-tools installed (sudo apt install pyqt5-dev-tools) to use the pyrcc5 command,
  • sphinx installed (pip install sphinx or sudo apt install python3-sphinx) to generate the documentation.

License

MIT