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Short: A handwriting vector font!
Author: Daniel Amor <amor@student.uni-tuebingen>,
Uploader: Daniel Amor <amor@student.uni-tuebingen>
Udo Wiemens <dimo@postwar.augusta.de>
path: text/font
date: 14/11/94
UdoWiemens
This font was made from the handwriting of Udo Wiemens. It's a quick hack
to show other people how to submit your handwriting for conversion to
a vector font!
Font Formats: - Adobe (Type 1 [pfa & pfb], Type 3, Bitmap)
- DMF (+ bitmap)
- Bitmap (Black&White)
- IntelliFont
- TrueType
Font ID: 6159
UdoWiemens ist Freeware. Use it as you like, but please don't remove this
readme file!
Original Design 1994 by Udo Wiemens. Vector Font creation by Daniel Amor.
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How to submit your handwriting!
1. Get a piece of (white) paper and write every single letter down, which you'd
like to see in the finished product. This may consist only of the alphabet
or you could add the numbers and other signs. The more characters you submit
the better. Have a look at your Amiga manual, where you can see the 256 ASCII
Set. If you submit all of them, it would be best of course!
1a. Don't use a pen, that will vary the width of the writing. This happened
with this font, it's makes it very individual but may look strange in a
text.
2. If you don't own a scanner or don't have access to one THEN GOTO 5
3. Scan in the paper. The larger the characters and the better the resolution
of the scanner the better the final output will be.
4. Save each character as an IFF/GIF/PCX file and give each file a good
filename as a description. Best would be to use the ASCII code, e.g.
the 'A' would be saved in '065.iff'.
5. Send me your artwork, either on paper or disk and I'll try to create a
nice font out of it. You can also add some nice little graphics. Do whatever
you like! If you have created a font yourself already, then why not send
it in!
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Ok, here's my address:
Daniel Amor
Ludwigstr. 124
70197 Stuttgart
Germany
You can also e-mail it to me: amor@student.un-tuebingen.de
============================= Archive contents =============================
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5744 2358 58.9% 14-Nov-94 18:38:38 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.afm
468 222 52.5% 14-Nov-94 18:38:38 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.afm.info
67531 37673 44.2% 14-Nov-94 18:38:24 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.pfa
36614 32806 10.4% 14-Nov-94 18:35:48 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.pfb
468 224 52.1% 14-Nov-94 18:35:50 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.pfb.info
61089 24488 59.9% 14-Nov-94 18:38:48 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.ps
468 225 51.9% 14-Nov-94 18:38:48 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.ps.info
1856 1000 46.1% 14-Nov-94 18:43:56 FF/Adobe/UdoWiemens.readme
62112 50355 18.9% 14-Nov-94 18:40:10 FF/Bitmap/_bullet_outlines/UdoWiemens.type
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38276 8942 76.6% 14-Nov-94 18:41:48 FF/Bitmap/UdoWiemens/75
4332 1519 64.9% 14-Nov-94 18:39:12 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.12H
5299 1835 65.3% 14-Nov-94 18:39:36 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.14H
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29266 18978 35.1% 14-Nov-94 18:28:10 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.dmf
894 503 43.7% 14-Nov-94 18:28:10 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.dmf.info
562 292 48.0% 14-Nov-94 18:28:10 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.fm
468 222 52.5% 14-Nov-94 18:28:12 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.fm.info
1856 1000 46.1% 14-Nov-94 18:44:02 FF/DMF/UdoWiemens.readme
1856 1000 46.1% 14-Nov-94 18:44:02 FF/IntelliFont/UdoWiemens.readme
62112 50355 18.9% 14-Nov-94 18:30:56 FF/IntelliFont/UdoWiemens.type
468 223 52.3% 14-Nov-94 18:30:56 FF/IntelliFont/UdoWiemens.type.info
1856 1000 46.1% 14-Nov-94 18:44:06 FF/TrueType/UdoWiemens.readme
97264 34573 64.4% 14-Nov-94 18:31:52 FF/TrueType/UdoWiemens.ttf
468 221 52.7% 14-Nov-94 18:31:52 FF/TrueType/UdoWiemens.ttf.info
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