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Author Topic: How can I create dashed / dotted fonts.  (Read 2798 times)
ravink
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« on: 2010-02-16, 05:08:01 »

Hi

I have a new assignment to create a non-English trace font for school children. Can anyone give me some ideas on how to do this?

Examples are :

http://www.fontspace.com/londons-letters/lms-spelling-bee
http://www.fontspace.com/blue-vinyl/print-clearly
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/free/national-first-font-dotted.htm


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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« Reply #1 on: 2010-02-16, 10:07:46 »

Hi,
A dotted version is something that can be automated though it will always required manual tuning.
As for a dashed version, the option I found giving you the best control is to draw the shapes as wire and use Illustrator paths with contour properties. Another dotted version can be achieved with this method, I guess.
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« Reply #2 on: 2010-02-16, 21:37:16 »

Hi,
A dotted version is something that can be automated though it will always required manual tuning.
As for a dashed version, the option I found giving you the best control is to draw the shapes as wire and use Illustrator paths with contour properties. Another dotted version can be achieved with this method, I guess.

Do you know where to get such an automation script?

I thought of creating a wire version in AI, but I do not have AI and there is no easy way to create a complete wire version of the whole font set. The closest is to create a centerline trace on a bitmap. Even that will be quite difficult.



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« Reply #3 on: 2010-02-17, 02:44:19 »

There is a macro called "digital". You can find that under "effects". I think it comes with the standard Python installation for fontlab.
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