Does anyone know if there is a open source clone of "Scanahand"
Here is the link of the actual thing: http://www.high-logic.com/scanahand.html
any help is appreciated
Thanks
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FontForge is the only one I'm aware of, however I believe it requires Cygwin (Linux 'emulator', if you will) to run, which is not really a candidate for portability at all. Perhaps there are other programs, but none I can think of unfortunately. I've also clarified your title for other people to understand, try to be more descriptive with them in the future. Thanks!
There is also a mingw version http://www.geocities.jp/meir000/fontforge/ ready to use. Haven't checked it for portability. I have just played with it once or twice for the Graphic Design course I am on when at home. It's all Mac this Mac that on the course, what happened to personal choice? Admittedly there's about 70% of the market as Windows users but that main percentage remaining are Mac users whom are predominantly involved with Design in one way or another.
I hope it does fair better than cygwin for portability. After all a great open source collection for Graphic Design would be: GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus and Blender; FontForge and Kompozer are there as alternatives later in my course, with Audacity, Avidemux and dvdstyler amongst a few others for a totally open source alternative to the mainstream tools in Graphic Design.
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Yes, FontForge depends on Cygwin.
It looks to me, though, as though the unofficial port of fontforge to MinGW might work well; Japanese or English (ish!).
I haven't tried it though. Also, it's bigger - a 12MB zip instead of a 7MB bz2. And it may not be kept up to date - currently it's about a month behind (with the latest cygwin build from 9 days ago). But at the bottom it does seem to have an auto patching thing... but I'm not trying it until at least when I get back home - mid February. Lots of time for someone else to do it
Edit: Whoops, tanisthalon beat me to it... ah well
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for the all the help, I haven't keep up to date on everything to do with Graphic Design. Oh and Thanks Patrick for changing my title, sorry I didn't clarify, I will do that in the future.
As for fontforge I look at the translated version and it looks good, I will try it out later today.
Also thanks Tanisthalon for all of the recommendations.
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