On 6/4/2008 2:52 PM Big_Al spake thus:
> Steve Caple wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:19:55 +1200, Greg Procter wrote:
>>
>>> Even for general lettering for a 1930 layout there's almost nothing.
>>> Try fitting any MS font on a sign of a given dimension such as a sign
>>> panel in a plastic kit and the letters won't fit. Either you've got
half
>>> a letter over the edge or you have too small lettering for the panel.
>>
>> You need Corel Draw - lots of extra fonts, and you can manipulate
them
>> and resize them, change individual letter spacing, etc., etc., as
required.
>>
> Could you use mspaint (or my preference photoshop) and use the lettering
> tool to write your text then shrink the image to the size needed to fit
> the kit. If you start close, you should not get much distortion.
??
Probably; most software can be cajoled, persuaded or forced to do what
you want it to, but it would be a gigantic pain in the ass. First of
all, Paint deals with bitmaps only (pixels), which is a lot more
difficult to work with.
Steve's right: Corel (or equivalent, like Illustrator, or other
shareware programs available that deal with vector graphics) is the way
to go. Shrink, stretch, adjust line thickness, line color, fill color,
etc. And Corel does (at least used to) come with lotsa lotsa fonts.
For that matter, if I only had Micro$oft Office (as Greg seems to have),
I'd use Word in favor of Publisher. It's not designed for that kind of
graphic manipulation, but it does allow sizing text to just about any
size in small increments (hint: set the "grid spacing" to a smaller
setting than the default).
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