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There is a program I bought a couple years back and still haven't figured out how to work it. It takes a bitmap image of type and compares it to all the type that you have in your libraries and will ID it to the closest match.
I'm hoping to find someone that uses this program that I might chat with and get the help I need
Thanks for you ears.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus Posts: 6714 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I had it on my old computer and it worked fairly well. Can't think of the name of it right now. Was it "fontmatcher"? If I remember right, you had to save the scanned bitmap as a BMP file. My Signwizard 6.0 program has the feature too.
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Rick - I haven't used the program, but may I suggest a quick and easy alternative? Last week, I needed to find a font for a 1940's vehicle brand name "Motorette". The guy restoring the vehicle found only one picture on the internet of a Motorette, and wanted me to cut the name out of vinyl and match the emblem in the picture, as best as possible. I took the internet picture, quickly traced the parts of the emblem from the picture, and saved the trace as a jpeg. I then uploaded the jpeg to a site called: What the Font? This site found several fonts that were a match or close match to my jpeg image, all within seconds! Some of the fonts suggested were free, some could be purchased. It was easy, and worked for me. I know this isn't what you were asking for, but I hope this info. helps you, in anyway. It is just another reference tool for anyone in a bind for a special, or unknown font. Also, I'll ask around my local network, and see if I can get you some info. on that program. My printer buddy has one program (for MacIntosh) that matches fonts. I'll get back to you!
-------------------- Kathy Weeks Weeks-End Signs & Graphics Lake Elmo, Minnesota Posts: 249 | From: Lake Elmo, Minnesota | Registered: Mar 2009
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I use the program Font Expert some times. Mind it, it is old and therefore all these great fonts that were produced these last few years aren't available and then what the font would be a better program.
I do everything in photoshop.... The photo has to be transformed black and white (no greyscales). High resolution is ofcourse prefered. Save it as a bitmap (8 bits), you can save it allmost everywhere on your pc, but do not save it on your desktop. Open the program and then search the bitmap and open it. After that click on the magic wont and click on a letter in your bitmap photo. The program will select the whole shape and then go to the alfabet-menu and tell whicj letter you just selected (capitals or not). Repeat this with as much different letters as possible and then click on the bottom button in the alfabeth menu. Then it will calculate all posibilities and your done.
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Rick ... fonts are added to the Private Database by
1. Install the fonts to be added on your computer
2. Launch FontExpert and then click on File > Edit Database
3. Under the one dropdown menu named Database-Generator, setup the directory to store what you generate and setup source identifiers for all font makers you are adding.
4. The list on the left is installed fonts and the fonts in your Private Database are shown on the right. Select from the left list, assign the Source Identifier, and click the arrow pointing to the right to add to the Private Database. Multiple fonts can be selected and they will process one at a time until completed.
5. When done, go to File > Options and fill in the path to the Private Database so it will be included in your searches.
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