# Using text from an image to create font? **URL:** \ **Category:** FontCreator - Support\ **Created:** [September 13, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/using-text-from-an-image-to-create-font/2911 "2010-09-13T03:07:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![William](https://forum.high-logic.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@William](https://forum.high-logic.com/u/William)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/using-text-from-an-image-to-create-font/2911/3 "2010-09-13T10:57:50Z")
You might find the following thread of interest. > [@Pre-processing scaling of an imported image please](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/pre-processing-scaling-of-an-imported-image-please/2113/1): > > Could you consider having the Import Image facility have a third panel, as well as Image and Glyph please. The purpose of this panel would be to scale the imported image before the grid to vector processing takes place. This suggestion arises because of the following phenomenon, which is here explained using the image of text from the following page. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas\_Jenson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson) The image can be downloaded to local storage. It can then be imported into FontCreator and the ima… If you open your original image in Microsoft Paint and enlarge it by 400% both horizontally and vertically and then save that as a new image and then import that new image into FontCreator you might get a better result. It may not be of any benefit in this particular case, but it might be worth trying. I hope that this helps. William Overington 13 September 2010 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/using-text-from-an-image-to-create-font/2911)._