Maybe try using the swis721 font, it gives outlines of letters, the child then fills in the letter. I used it to teach my grandson basic writing skills a couple of years ago. As far as printing light, I just set my hp1220 printer to do that, it's a command. scsijon At 12:23 AM 4/7/02 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
My wife is teaching our little girl how to write. She wants to print sheets with letters on them for tracing. The letters should be light print, or dotted/dashed (not complete). It would be nice to have lines above and below the letters, with a dashed line through the middle.
Does anyone know of Linux software to do this? Fonts? Or how to use HTML/XML/Tex to accomplish it?
Maybe you'll find sketch usable, a sort of mini-Adobe-Illustrator. You can type big letters, color them, trace them with lines or Bezier curves, dot those lines, color them, color the fill (i.e. what's inside the lines). However, I have not seen a way to make those character outlines automatically, as Illustrator or CorelDraw do.
Coloured character outlines _can_ be made with the drawing module of StarOffice. I have SO5.2, don't know if it still exists in 6.0.
SH
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