Get a whole word as *.svg

[pwichmann]

Is it possible to get a whole word as an *.svg and not only a single letter?

So if we take the example...

var fontkit = require('fontkit');

var font = fontkit.openSync('font.ttf');

var run = font.layout('hello!');

// get an SVG path for a glyph
var svg = run.glyphs[0].path.toSVG();

...would it be possible to get the whole word 'hello!' as one SVG?

I don't want to iterate over the glyphs array since it would become impossible for me to correctly align each individual letter of a word once they have been separated.

Do I make sense at all?
Many thanks for any help!

[Pomax]

This sounds like a duplicate of #24

[pwichmann]

Thank you, Pomax.

I am not sure I could see any solution offered in #24.

I might be stupid again (as in my last issue), but:
Would exporting each glyph into individual paths not result in losing the property of having all letters correctly scaled and positioned/aligned? I would not know how to align letters the way the font designer intended to align the letters.

[Pomax]

There is no solution as of yet, but all solutions start with an issue filed to ask for that solution to be implemented.

What I requested in #24 is literally what you're asking too: SVG code for the typeset string sequence, with all kerning, ligatures, etc. applied; so, not a concatenation of individual glyphs, that would indeed be rather useless. We can technically already do that right now, and it's not really good enough =)

It might be worth commenting in #24 for you, to explain what you needed it for, and perhaps some work on it can be done as a result of seeing renewed interest.

[pwichmann]

I commented on #24 and expressed my support as well as explained my needs.