Hello All,
When I read this thread I had to add my thoughts to the pile.
Signlab engraving fonts are not up to the quality one would expect from
probably the leading sign/engraving software. I have been using it from the time it was black and white and called Sign Studio.
I believe they should have a small number of super engraving dedicated fonts, were a great deal of time as been put into their shape and of course the most efficent path takened to make each and every digit. For industrial engraving probably 4 or 5 single line fonts would be enough, I cannot speak for the Trophy people because I have no experience of the trade.
In my Engravlab I have various headings like profonts roman etc.but really they are a waste of time.
I run a Venture engraver which had its own fonts and there are a few no nonsense industrial engraving fonts in there that just look right , engrave right and really demonstrate the way engraving fonts should be created. unfortunately they are not compatiable with any other software.
I did spend time exporting this font as .plt file and then creating it in engravlab as a font , it works fine but it seems to slow down on curves and really I don't have the expertise to take this one any further.
You can create a font in Engravlab under the heading Edit you will find Edit Font section.
I believe as Engravlab is being sold as top notch software we deserve a small number of top notch fonts to suit the various trades that use it.

Regards
Ian R

It all depends on what format you want to end up with.

For the Gravostlye 98 fonts I use the 'Font Edition', (It is a bad translation from French and should be Font Editor'), part of the program. It costs $500 to have this activated. You need to create each letter as a PLT then import them one by one and set all of the kerning pairs.

For TTF I use 'Font Creator'. You either have to import a font and modify it or bring in BMP's for each letter and clean them up from the BMP to vector import conversion. Then set kerning pairs and do a lot of TTF type setups.

All in all expect it to take about 40 hours to make a font, when skilled at it and lucky.

That is why I make fonts only when forced to.

Philadelphia, PA (Really Bensalem)

When you finally understand it completely... it changes.

You can also create fonts in Corel.

I typically start my font designs in Corel and then finish up in Font Creator.

Michel