Single line fonts in Lightburn

For laser engraving I use often single line fonts (.SHX). There are very specific fonts you won't find on the system by default. Although it is a recognisable font file format. Nice set of those comes as default with the Autodesk Fusion 360 installation. But .shx don't get installed on the system as standard fonts to be accessible by other programs.

For the laser engraving I use Lightburn. It is as simple as find the folder with .shx fonts in Fusion installation and pointing to that location within the Lightburn settings. Recently I got hold of bigger pack of those fonts and I decided to do some tidy ups.

I copied all .shx fonts into one folder and when Fusion keeps them separately to choose - that Lightburn list them together with regular fonts - and that could be a bit harder to pick them up from the list.

As they in one folder there is a relatively simple way to rename all files. I decided to just add "sl_" prefix.

Use Windows Command Prompt navigate to the folder of interest "cd (folder with fonts)" and type

for %a in (*.*) do ren "sl_%a"

Just really be sure you are in the right folder. There is nofing wrong if you type the formula wrong it just won't work. There could be a problem if you'd type it correctly in the wrong place ;).

It is a simple loop function. It iterates through all Items (%a) in the folder (*.*)- means here, where I'm now. "do" call for action "ren" function that handles renameing items. The last bit is a pattern you want to get - prefix plus original name of the item (%a).