How to convert text to SVG paths?

Question

I have a font in ttf file and want to generate SVG with text turned into paths. I don\'t need image (so using imagettftext or Image Magick font rendering capabilities is not

Answer 1

If you can get an svgfont out then you have all the information there to render it using the glyph paths (copy-paste all the glyph path data you need to any number of path elements and apply a flip-y transform and scale it to whatever size you need). Batik has a tool called ttf2svg, which gives you svgfont output. There are others as well, fontforge for example.

Not sure if there are any pure command-line tools out there that can generate an svg like this directly, but the Inkscape solution should do exactly what you want.