Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : hwgen Version : 1916 Upstream Author : Bernhard R. Fischer <b...@abenteuerland.at> * URL : https://www.cypherpunk.at/download/hwgen/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : handwriting generator
hwgen is a tool which creates electronic documents with a real handwritten-like font. Sometimes it is desirable to use a font which looks similar to a handwritten text. Those fonts typically are called script fonts and a quick Google search results in several million hits. Although many of them look as designed by a calligraphist, all of those fonts work in the same way as every other font does (such as Times, Helvetica, and even Microsofts ugly Comic Sans.). Text is combined out of a set of static glyphs, one for each character. Hwgen uses a font definition database (which is currently an array in C), which defines the glyphs for each letter as a set of b-splines. When rendering a specific glyph Hwgen slightly randomizes the nodes of the splines. Thus, each glyph looks similar but not identical. These glyphs were created manually within many hours of work, one by one. For the tool to be more useful, a small HTML-like parser was implemented which converts an HTML document directly into a PDF or into several JPGs. https://www.cypherpunk.at/2014/08/a-handwriting-generator-presentation-design/
