I am trying to find a simple true type font solution.
In other words a truly basic single line font.
I bought engravers fonts only to find they were too many points in contours.
I need something legible with as few points and curves as possible.
I use it for notes and annotations on a pen plotter to make fabric patterns.
The problem I run into is every normal true type font is a double line configuration with many points and curves.
With a pen plotter any ttf text becomes a huge waste of time.
If i optimize the points the font becomes illegible.
I am curious if anyone has a font available to accomplish this?
I use the font in a cad environment.
Currently i made a small set of hand drawn fonts but I have to assemble my notes and save them as line drawings to import.
But I need a better solution. It seems strange these arent readily available.
Most require use of a specific program to utilize their font and it doesnt solve my problem at all lol.
Best regards,
Chris
P.S. I can create an image file of my simple alphabet i made in CAD.
Is there a way I can import the alphabet into font creator or something else to generate the ttf file? 
http://www.canvasdesigners.com/Downloads/ImageOfFonts.zipThe link is a zip file containing:
2 wmf (windows meta file) images of my cad drawn alphabets.
1 single line engravers font, to show how narrow the lineweight needs to be.
I just need a basic connect the dots font that is noramlly too narrow to use in a windows environment.
I don’t have any experience with engraving/ CNC, Computer(ized) Numerical(ly) Control(led), related tools. With Font Creator you can create and modify TrueType fonts. In a TrueType font, glyph shapes are described by their outlines. A glyph outline consists of a series of closed contours, so usually they can’t be made out of a single line (exceptions are 0, O, o and D).
Yes I noticed after opening the engraving fonts up with your program.
They simply narrowed the width between the points from what I gathered.
Problem is there were too many points and contours.
I guess I am looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. lol
Coming from a cad environment the font creation looks a bit more arduous than just designating 2 points and a line weight.
Is there a file format I can export each letter to import directly as a letter in your program?
In other words, draw the letter in cad and export it.
Import it into Font Creator and have it recognize the image as the letter and display the points for me?
Just trying to shortcut the arduous nature of creating the shapes.
I’ll even offer the font to your forum for free for the help.
Also, I tried wmf export from Rhinocerous (My cad environment).
It opens fine with Windows Picture & Fax viewer.
But Font Creator wont recognize it?
I wondered if there is a file size limitation, or if I should handle each individual letter as a separate file instead of the entire alphabet I drew up.
file (recommended image dimension between 100x100 and 500x500 pixels).
Ok got that from the help file. Going through creating the individual image files now.
Still says the wmf is invalid?
100 pixel x 100 pixels.
WinXP Picture & Fax viewer recognizes it?
Try to export the wmf file as a bitmap, then import that into Font Creator.
Doesnt display anything.
Apparently the lines are too thin.
I’m running into alot of things trying to make a font.
Keyboard mapping?
I just want to map the right glyph to the standard MS keyboard map for the right characters.
Can I import the fonts I have made into the standard map of the default font created by font creator?
In other words,
1.) I select the character on the new file map automatically generated by “New File”.
2.) Browse and select the character from the font I have created so far.
3.) Insert that character to replace the default one created?
When you create a New Font, it contains no glyphs (letter shapes), only character mapping details. You can copy glyphs from your other font and paste them into the appropriate position with cut and paste. If you tile the windows of the two fonts side by side, this process may be easier.
Thanks =)
That helped me immensely!
Almost done with the fonts used most.