Using Gerber Graphix Advantage to make ttffont
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:00 pm
Spent most of the day trying to get Scanahand and Gerber to make a ttf font. This is what I did with only modest luck.
I imported the basic High-Logicalphabet template into Gerber and used Gerber to recreate one where I could input some of my fonts I created for Gerber to make them into a TTF. After several attempts of adjusting the narrow line width between character boxes and changing template to various colors would then print out a filled version of the form with my characters placed into the various cells from the Gerber program. I would then use scanner and the scanahand program to convert the scan into a ttf font. Some of the problems I ran into were that under several of the alphabet characters the scanahand program would add a black line beneath from the template, while numbers would come in with just the character outline, I am using a Brothers 3-1 scanner at 300-400 dpi when scanning. The characters quality should be of high quality, but the sides of several characters seem to be very rough and not accurate, not ready for prime time.
Please advise why I keep getting black line under characters, how to get rid of them. How to improve the quality of the finish ttf from what are high quality originals giving me vector outlines of poor quality.
Have tried using a demo version of ScanFont 5 that give a better output of outlines than I'm getting with Scanahand.
Please advise would like to produce some quality level fonts if possible.
I imported the basic High-Logicalphabet template into Gerber and used Gerber to recreate one where I could input some of my fonts I created for Gerber to make them into a TTF. After several attempts of adjusting the narrow line width between character boxes and changing template to various colors would then print out a filled version of the form with my characters placed into the various cells from the Gerber program. I would then use scanner and the scanahand program to convert the scan into a ttf font. Some of the problems I ran into were that under several of the alphabet characters the scanahand program would add a black line beneath from the template, while numbers would come in with just the character outline, I am using a Brothers 3-1 scanner at 300-400 dpi when scanning. The characters quality should be of high quality, but the sides of several characters seem to be very rough and not accurate, not ready for prime time.
Please advise why I keep getting black line under characters, how to get rid of them. How to improve the quality of the finish ttf from what are high quality originals giving me vector outlines of poor quality.
Have tried using a demo version of ScanFont 5 that give a better output of outlines than I'm getting with Scanahand.
Please advise would like to produce some quality level fonts if possible.