Thanks Henry, For some reason, I was not thinking of that idea. I was actually not able to find free D' Nealian fonts. I was able to find a similar style used by Australian schools called Victoria Modern.
Stephen Henry House wrote: > 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 ;-) >
