Dotted chars

[xpt]

This is your first patterns: . . .

This is your second pattern:

THANKS A LOT!

wonderful patterns!

[fmw42]

Did that help with your dotted Letters? If so, please show a result and your command line.

Note IM has some built-in patterns. see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/forma ... n-patterns

[xpt]

Did that help with your dotted Letters? If so, please show a result and your command line.

Sure, will edit the OP.

[anthony]

NOTE, the OP has been edited to a QA style to give the scenario/request and solution.
> I'm wondering how feasible it is to use ImageMagick tools to produce dotted characters for kids, so they can practice writing following those dotted letters.

yes I am late to this discussion, but looking at the solution I wondered if there was a way to get draw to stroke a dotted outline of a font. Seems it works though quite as I expected.

First using annotate so I am sure I have all my font and canvas setting right...

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convert -size 180x80 xc: -font ArialBk -pointsize 72 -gravity center -fill none -stroke black \
      -annotate 0 Abc font_ann.png

Now try to draw a dotted outline.

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convert -size 180x80 xc: -font ArialBk -pointsize 72 -gravity center -fill none -stroke black \
      -draw 'stroke-dasharray 1 6 text 0,0 "Abc" ' font_dotty.png

Now that is interesting but seem to have extra dots in it, almost like the stroke did not end but was drawn from one character to the next, without being turned off in between.

Seem to be a bug, replacing stroke-dasharray values with values like '10 1' shows up this BUG very clearly.

However if you combine the dotty output with a full stroked output you should get what you want.

[anthony]

There was a post a while ago where the user was placing tiny images of band members? onto letters in a stadium to spell out names. That would work but I can not remember where the post is now. I only deleted the image off my laptop last week

The Discussion was "A Fun Experience with IM"
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17259
Example from that discussion...


The font was 'dot' But is not available any more from the original source.
But I have uploaded it to
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9500683/Dot.ttf

[xpt]

Thanks a lot for your more input, Anthony!