I’m using Font Creator to convert images into a font which I then use to cut images out in Foiles “Wallstickers”
It is therefore very important for me that the edges are very sharp on the font. However my problem is that when I’m seeing the “import image” box the left picture " Source Image" is very clean and sharp as it should be but the right picture “image used when generating contours” is very rough which then creates a very rough plot.
The fun part is that this is not the case on all pictures I’m creating - only some but most of them!
I have uploaded an example of the problem.
Your source image is not black and white but has all kinds of gray as well. See the top flower zoomed by 800%:
graytobw2.png
The threshold value is used to decide which pixels will be identified as black and white.
If you want higher quality imports you nee to use a higher resolution (larger) image. FontCreator 6 that will be released next week will allow you to import vector based images.
What I am suggesting that you might try, if your original artwork is in a file that can be loaded into Microsoft Paint, is to load a copy of your original artwork into Microsoft Paint, then save with a different name so as not to alter the original, then, in Paint, use Image Stretch/Skew… and in the Stretch section use 400% for Horizontal and 400% for Vertical, leaving the 0 values in the Skew section unaltered, then click OK, then Save.
Then try importing that new image file into FontCreator.
At first glance, what I suggest may seem pointless as the artwork file is just bigger without being of any greater resolution: however, sometimes the bitmap to vector conversion process of FontCreator does seem then to produce a better result on such an enlarged image.
So, if you try the above idea it may not improve your results.
If you do try it, please let us know your results.
