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Hand drawn fonts – can I save them?
Hello All,
As a stonemason of many years cutting letters by hand, we will shortly be resorting to sandblast letters in stone on "some" jobs for economic reasons.
However, having looked at the fonts in the sign programme we have (Vinyl Master Pro) I much prefer my own style of hand drawn fonts. I have drawn these out onto several sheets of A3 paper.My question therefore is this:
Is it possible to scan my fonts into VMP and then to save them in the software. Also, if this can be done would the scanned fonts be adjustable in size. If it can be done, would someone kindly offer a few "how to do it" tips.
Oh aye, we also have CorelDraw 10 if that helps.Thanks,
Mike Delta. -
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you can scan the fonts and colour trace them with a vector program. corel x3 does this pretty well… however, this depends greatly on how sharp/clean the drawings are. me personally, ide digitise them from a scan.
once every letter has been traced on screen you have a scalable font like any other though loading it as a working/typing font in your software is something i know nothing about. in short, yes… it can be done.
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Mike, it is perfecty Pheasable (spelling) to scan and vectorise your letters,
And they will be scaleable, You can also get a font creation program to draw them into, so that you can type the letters. There are commercial and shareware progs available. Takes a bit of time to master but, you may even be able to publish and sell your own alphabet.Take a look at http://www.letterheadfonts.com
Peter
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…and while you are doing that…
Arthur Vanson has some excellent hand-drawn fonts on letterheadfonts.com.
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You used to be able to create your own fonts in one of the old Gerber softwares ( cant remember which one, it was about 8 years ago ) as I used to make fonts for one of my former employers. But I think you could only use them in the gerber software. So yes it can be done but Im sure there are better ways of doing it now. These were fully useable typeable fonts, so it has been done and can be done again Im sure!
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Freehand software has an addition to create your own complete font as a TT font.
We had one done some years ago (by an outside company) and it works perfect. I think you create the letters, etc. as vector files.while on the subject of fonts:
does anybody know of a font with letters and especially the digits ‘lying down’, i.e turned 90 degree? I have to do some signs with the numbers vertically underneath each other, and sequential.
Printing on Edge so I might have a look at the omega software
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There is one called ‘Wedgie’ which may do you.
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Hello all,
Thanks for the replies. I’ll give it a go this week end when I’ll have a few hours to spare.Robert, when you say that you would "…digitise" the scanned images to clean them up, what do you mean? Or should I say, how do you do that?
I’m a bit thick when it comes to using anything other than a word processor so all/any advice is welcome. .
Thanks,
Mike Delta.
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