Thanks for everyone's inputs. I have a couple of comments:
1. We seem to be getting everything twice again!
2. It seems that making fonts is not trivial and the resolution
available may not be good enough to make them look good. Having said
that, I'll pass on 2 as yet unexplored avenues that were suggested to
me:
- a program called Scan Font (haven't tried to find it yet, but
its on the web I'm sure)
- a site http://www.cool-fonts.com/howto.htm that I haven't
visited yet
3. Lots of people suggest just pasting in the symbol using
Insert-picture or a similar method. That is precisely the method that
made us look for a better method. The insertion of a bit map into a
Word document, even when using frames (or not) causes all kinds of
formatting problems that we haven't been able to get around. We are
trying to insert something on the same scale as the font size that the
text is in. The only manageable way we have found to do this without
creating difficult formatting problems is to use Acrobat or Freehand.
Our hope was that if we could easily create fonts we would then have a
tool that everyone could use (we all have Word).
Thanks again for everyone's help.
Regards,
Jim Eichner
Statpower Technologies Corporation
[email protected]
http://www.statpower.com
Any opinions expressed are those of my invisible friend, who really
exists. Honest.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Egon H. Varju [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 1998 11:48 PM
> To: Jim Eichner
> Cc: EMC-PSTC
> Subject: Converting IEC symbols to fonts
>
> Jim,
>
> > What would it take to convert symbols to characters in a font set,
> so
> > that inserting them in a Word document would be as simple as
> changing
> > the font and hitting the right key?
>
> Some time ago, I downloaded a program called ScanFont. Sounds like
> the
> kind of thing you are talking about, but I haven't had a chance to try
> it
> out yet. I missplaceded the file in the meantime, but you should be
> able
> to find it on the Internet.
>
> BTW, what you have in mind is not a trivial project ...
>
> Cheers,
> Egon
