Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Wilkin
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

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 21 September 2009, Jim Wilkin wrote: You might look at http://www.category5.tv/show_notes/ , Episode 102 Tells you how to make your own fonts. Jim If her ever gets to the subject of the show. 11 minutes in they are still yakking about gmail's outage the neighbors noise. Good video

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-21 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
Thanks all for the responses. I was hoping for a linux based font so I can use Chris Radek's Truetype-tracer. Dave Engvall's wife forwarded me a good link as well. I will look through the links provided and see if there is a way to get them through the tracer program. Does anyone know how to

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-21 Thread Dewey Garrett
FInally, if no to the above, is there a tool I can use to modify a font file to undress an 'a'? fontforge might help: Description: Font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts FontForge (formerly PfaEdit) allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts. You can create new ones or modify old

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-21 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:29 -0400, 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

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-21 Thread Jon Elson
Kirk Wallace wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:29 -0400, 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

[Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-20 Thread BRIAN GLACKIN
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

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-20 Thread David Braley
Brian, If you don't mind using some Microsoft fonts, you should be able to install the msttcorefonts package. For Debian: # apt-get install msttcorefonts I can't remember, but I think you need to enable the non-free section in your sources.list file. Now, the reason I say all of this is, the

Re: [Emc-users] Slightly OT: Font files for Truetype-Tracer

2009-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
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