How to outline font??

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Hi ,

I wish to outline my font without making the inside of the font ‘transparent’.

For example, at the minute I am doing this:

  1. Load a font.
  2. Tools → Glyph Transformer
  3. Select ‘Outlines’ and click on the ‘Open script buttton’
  4. Select Outline Bold.xml

This works fine but the font is transparent, with only the edges showing. How do I have the font just have bolder or thicker edges?

Thanks

Harry

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With TrueType and OpenType fonts you can only define areas that are filled and areas that are not filled.

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Thanks for the reply. Can I use any other type of font?

i was just wondering, when the font is outline, is it possible to fill the font with e.g. white and have the edge black? That would solve my problem.


Thanks again

harry

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I suggest you take a look at BitFonter.

5

It just is not going to work with fonts. The way to do this is to convert the font to curves in your DTP application, then fill the curve with white, and use a black outline.
Outline.png

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It is possible to have a pair of fonts, one solid font and one outline font and, in some applications, display the solid font in white and the outline font in black on top of it so that the display appears as if it is a single font even though it is really two fonts used together.

As it happens I have made some fonts with which one can do this. It works quite well when producing pdf documents from a desktop publishing package if the desktop publishing package can support layers.

What application are you using?

You could try using the fonts available from the two following links for a feasibility experiment if you wish.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CHRONTXT.TTF

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CHRONTXO.TTF

Here is an example of those fonts in use together.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/outline.PDF

William Overington

21 November 2008

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I have now made the attached graphic using the two fonts mentioned above. I used Serif PagePlus X2 (a desktop publishing package) to make the graphic.
graphic.png
William Overington

21 November 2008