Scan the page, making sure the page is as straight as possible and the scanner glass is spotless. Keep well within the lines there’s nothing clever about how splits the page up. This doesn’t work very well if you use thick paper. The second page is guidelines that you can place under the page. Print at least the first page of chargrid.pdf. chargrid.pdf – the font grid template for printing. – splits up a (very particular) bitmap grid into character cells. autotrace or potrace so that FontForge can convert the scanned bitmaps to vectors. FontForge, the amazing free font editor. NetPBM, the free graphics converter toolkit. It might need Cygwin under Windows I don’t know. I wrote and tested this on a Mac (with some packages installed from DarwinPorts), but it should run on Linux. This process is a little fiddly, but all the parts are free, and it uses free software. This looks more than a bit like my handwritingīecause it is my handwriting! Sure, the spacing of the punctuation needs major work, and I could have fiddled with the baseline alignment, but it’s legible, which is more than can usually be said of my own chicken-scratch. One day I may update this post, but for now, I’m leaving it as is. There’s also some font cleanup I’d recommend, like resolving overlaps, adding extrema, and rounding points to integer. #Fontforge faster turn off install
Most of the *Ports Apple software repositories have given way to Homebrew: you may have some success on Mac (untested by me) if you brew install netpbm fontforge potrace.
That means that installation and run instructions may not work as well, or even at all.
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