Thanks for your help, guys. I really appreciate it.

llogg, I like your detailed how-to. However, you are right: feasable for a few individual characters, but too cumbersome to for an entire characterset.

I guess ~suv got me on the right trak, i.e. using centerline fonts. Thanks man!

Thanks for the warm welcome :) And your replies, of course. The reason I want to this is because I "pimped" my cut plotter a little bit: Instead of a cutting knife it holds a calligraphic pen. Instead of a cutting a foil it draws on paper with ink. So, the cut plotter's pen behaves just li...

I have a Text object (with a fill and no stroke) that I want to plot it with my cutplotter. I turn the text object into a path and end up with a path representing the outline of my text. So far, so good. BUT: This time I want to plot differently: I do not want the plotter to cut along the "outl...