Engraving
Fonts
(Under construction may 2004)
You can use windows TTF glyph outline for engraving
Down side is that those are balloon like closed contours
Sometimes its nicer to use single line stroked fonts
i have been experimenting with Borland chr fonts
but the are made off smal line segments and not nice whin scaled up
borland_chr_stroked_font_pascal.zip
Same is for autocad shx/shp fonts
Some information & example programs for TTF with QBasic and chr
with QBasic see Herman's Free Software
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hwiegman/qbasic.html#qfo
Better would be to have strokes beziers / curves / splines make
up the curves like in TTF
Visual toolbox has such a font pitty there is no editor
toolbox_amerzone_font_qbasic.zip
=> I wander where i have seen this before => Yep=> www.nameplate.tk
more fonts on
http://www.visualtoolbox.com/
in the past i have been playing with the text engraving program
and made a font i called WTF (wrong ttf)
The last contour of a ttf file is not used => so
windows makes
gabage off it
But would be neat for engraving single stroked lines with smooth curves
I asked high-logic who made a ttf editor designer if he would
make a
change in his program
not to close the last contourpoint to beginpoint
pitty he wasnt helpfull
Such a program would be a nice font editor for WTF
TTF
font editor
http://www.high-logic.com
Agfa also has some info about the subject single line stroked fonts
instead of outline = graphemes.???
http://www.agfamonotype.com/ce/stroke_fonts.asp
Funny to see a font today on the net wich looks like wat i called WTF
(wrong ttf)
and if you dowload one you can see windows makes a mess off the font
http://www.enggeo.com/support/Download/fonts_download.htm
Screen Image from a TTF
editor/designer
This is what windows will make of it
But if we look at the caps L
Screen Image from a TTF
editor/designer
We see a perfect L the angled line is not performed on the engraving
machine
so we have a perfect scaleble font with beziers or splines
and the fonts are editable with a standard TTF editor
under construction may 2004
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