I have a JPG of my grandmother’s handwriting, which I would like to put into a PDF form which I can DL from calligraphr.com and make that into a personalized font. When I make a rectangular selection to copy and paste a letter to put into the PDF form, it does not work, and wonder how I can manage it.
Another question: does Calligraphr work particularly well? Any alternatives to their service?
I doubt anyone here has used this service, so I looked into it.
I think you might have misinterpreted their instructions. The PDF you download isn’t interactive — it isn’t a form you can paste into. You print it out and draw the letters on the printed-out form, then send them a photo or a scan of the PDF.
The other option seems to be to download their PNG template (PNG is an image format, sort of like JPG, if you didn’t already know). For the next step, you will need an image editor, like Photoshop or something similar. Open the PNG in the image editor, and then you can copy, paste, and resize the individual letters from your JPG into the PNG image, which you would then upload. If you have graphic design software skills, this should be easy. If not, you’re sort of stuck, I’m afraid.
As for quality, it won’t be a super-high-quality font. Is your grandmother’s writing cursive (where all the letters hook together), or is it printed where each character is separate from the others? If it’s cursive, there will be inconsistencies in how the letters hook together since those connections differ with every pair of letters. The designers of commercial cursive script fonts go to great lengths to ensure each letter hooks into the next, but I’m certain your grandmother wouldn’t have done that. If each letter is separate from the next, as most printed handwriting is, it should work out OK.
I think you might have misinterpreted their instructions. The PDF you download isn’t interactive — it isn’t a form you can paste into. You print it out and draw the letters on the printed-out form, then send them a photo or a scan of the PDF.
I did understand that they hadn’t provided an interactive PDF, as such, but thought that all PDFs have some degree of interactivity, to an extent and that you can, for example, scribble on them, etc.
regardless thank you for your excellent suggestion of saving as an PNG.
I do understand what you said about not having an optimally high quality font… I don’t have a handwriting sample myself. rather, I had it sent to me by a cousin who had it.
as far as cursive versus not, I had meant sure to make sure to utilize printed versus cursive, for legibility purposes.
once more, thank you!