bobcdy:
I have a question - back to copyrights: undoubedly a Scanahand font derived from a commercial font does not violate copyrights, BUT does the method that I outlined in my post with uploaded images - printing a commercial font in Adobe Illustrator, coverting the type to outlines, and importing that to FontCreator - violate copyrights. I ask because the resulting glyph in FontCreator is remarkably like the original commercial font glyph directly imported into FontCreator, and is far more accurate than I can achieve by a very high resolution scan of enlarged printed letters of the font. The imports from Illustrator and directly from the commercial font are not identical in contour points but they are very very similar. I don’t want to violate copyrights, but on the other hand, I hesitate to discard tools such as Illustrator to create a similar font to a commercial one.
FontCreator does such a great job because it converts the postscript vectors (with curves described as cubic bezier curves) into TrueType based outlines (with curves defined through quadratic bezier curves).
Also see: From Vector (e.g. an Adobe Illustrator image) to Font
So basically you are saving the original font into another font format. TypeRight defines such behavior as Piracy .