Straight line dot to dot curves

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Hello,

I have a collection of fonts used to make vinyl signs. Most of the popular fonts are unusual ones that look highly styled over ordinary block lettering. Of these fonts, some of them use point to point stepping to make curves. On paper, you can’t see it, but on a 5" letter, it’s horrible. I dont’ want to become a font expert. I just want, in the quickest way, to bulk address all the characters to eliminate the stepping method of a curve. Is there a way to take a whole font file, and have it converted so that all flows in the font are not jagged? And as a 2nd hope, I’d like to eliminate sharp deep angles such as the dips on the inside of W’s N’s or M’s. Some fonts cut deep into these areas and to a vinyl cutter, it’s often just a cut into the vinyl as if it was cut sloppy.

Is there an easy way? If not, is there someone here that might want to trade some nice sign work for fixing about 10 font files for me?

Pleaase contact.

Thanks!

Bill

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Grayscaling may be a quick way to solve your problem. Do a search of this forum to find Posts like this:

http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/grayscaling/1301/1

http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/working-with-transformations/1153/1 is an excelent tutorial on Working with Transforms.

On the worst offenders the simplest thing to do is open the font with FC, open the editing window on the offending glyph, goto point mode, select the offending point and move it, delete it, or press “F” to change it to an off curve point to round the curve, or “N” to change it to an on curve point.

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What I would try first would be to do a screen grab of each glyph in the glyph edit window (Alter H to hide all guides and lines). Then I would resize the result to twice the size in Irfan View, clear the glyph and paste the resized bitmap to retrace the smoothed outline.

If you can post a link to the font, we can try various techniques.