Calling all typographers

Paul wrote: for one, of course) can import PostScript. I considered the Batchfelder 'digital' logo for my masthead design (having converted it from Postscript to SVG) and it's a beautiful piece of work. Due to its copyright, I could not incorporate it into my own work so I drew my 'digital' by blowing up the masthead image very lrge and manually tracing the edges with vectors and fitted splines. It took a lot of hours to do this. Afterwards I converted the splines to arc segments for generating the DXF then further conversion to SVG for stencil cut testing. One observation about converting old pieces of text to fonts. In my military vehicle restoration hobby, almost all old WWII vehicles have etched dataplates ('nomenclature plates' as they are called). There is a thriving market in reproductions of these, and are available for a large range of vehicles. Some are better than others. The better ones are done by treating the text, lines and spacing on the plate as an image. That way, the kerning, serifs and peculiarities of the original hand-typographed font are preserved. The inaccurate repros are done by retyping the plate using a near-enough modern font. I have seen one of these plates on eBay that even has a typo in it. That was annoying because it was a copy of a rare one I need for my own vehicle restoration. Steve.