On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:06:34AM +0200, Denis wrote:
As a marginal note, is anyone doing fontwork with Inkscape? Has anyone tips or experiences to share?
I'm not much of a font designer, but a few months back I found myself wanting to create a TTF by tracing some text on a few digital photos.
I had one SVG file. I imported a JPEG into it, traced a letter, hid the image, and then saved the SVG. I then switched to FontForge, created a new glyph, imported the SVG, and adjusted scale and position. (For the difficult letters I'd put a short line from the baseline to the x height to help with scaling, and delete it in FontForge.) After adjusting and saving the glyph, I switched back to Inkscape, deleted the letter shape, and moved onto the next letter. When I ran out of letters, I'd delete the image from the SVG and import the next one.
The only problem I had with this method was getting the kerning information to make the font look like the original, but this was probably exacerbated by the fact that the original text's kerning was awful. The end result was pretty good considering the skill level of the operator :->