On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:30:31AM -0700, Stephen M. Helms wrote: > Thanks for posting / reposting this to vox-tech Pete. I actually read > this on SEUL-edu as well. > > I actually found most of these references for fonts online as well. The > main problem I see is that I can not find any free fonts that are in the > D' Nealian style that have the additional ruler grids. Don't get me > wrong, I do not mind for paying for fonts that I use personally. I do > have a problem with not being able to write a free educational > application and not being able to distribute a free font with it.
But you can find D'Nealian fonts lacking grids? Depending on how you want to use the fonts, adding the gridpoints might be doable. There a few possibilities: * You will use bitmaps. Make a bitmap from each letter and then use imagemagick, netpbm, or gimp script-fu to add grids. * You can use an autotracing tool that outputs postscript type 3 fonts from a intermediate bitmap. Quality can be just fine if the starting bitmaps are high-resolution. * Dissasemble a type 1 font and edit by hand. Not recommended unless you really like postscript ;-) -- Henry House OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc
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