You might look at http://www.category5.tv/show_notes/ , Episode 102 Tells you how to make your own fonts. Jim
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: >> Greetings all. >> >> I recently used the Truetype-tracer to generate several lettered objects >> for my two boys preschool. The teachers loved the objects and were asking >> for additional letters so the children could use them for tracing >> practice. >> >> One issue they had was the shape of the small case letter "a". In almost >> all printing, the typeset has the letting "hat" on the letter, but when >> they teach the kids to write, they teach the letter "a" with no hat. >> >> I spent several hours yesterday going through the various freetype fonts >> trying to find an "unhatted" a can could not find a single instance or >> font. I was doing this by running the program with a given font and the >> letter "a" as the text, overwritting a .ngc file loaded into EMC, then just >> refreshing the file. Fortunately, Chris placed a comment at the top of >> each ngc file written with that routine stating the given font. >> >> Needless to say, I was unsuccessful in my search. Three questions. First, >> DOes anyone know of any freetype font with an "unhatted a"? IF no, is >> there a place where I can view all font sets without my current hunting >> and pecking? FInally, if no to the above, is there a tool I can use to >> modify a font file to "undress an 'a'"? > > Failing to find the 'a' you want may be best addressed by calling the .ngc > file into your favorite editor, and removing those cuts. > > I recently did a similar operation of removing the fonts inner strokes to get > one good single line font character remaining while I was engraving the hold > down bar of a rumba box I'd made with the 8 notes that it can play. I'd > guess it took 15 to 20 minutes to get a good letter by that method. About > 3.5 hours total IIRC. I may have to do it over as I'm now told that one of > them was supposed to be a sharp '#' too. > >> Thanks for the help. >> >> Brian >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA >> is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your >> developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay >> ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register >> now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
