: How to ensure the whole path has same width I'm trying to make a old style font for Oriya language from early 20th century prints which have been scanned. I need this font to train tesseract
I'm trying to make a old style font for Oriya language from early 20th century prints which have been scanned. I need this font to train tesseract for OCR-ing old books.
My illustrator skills are practically nil. I just learned how to use pen tool from youtube. I cropped one letter from a scan and traced it manually to get a rough outline of a letter. The whole letter is supposed to have uniform stroke thickness. How can I ensure that? Width tool? Any good comprehensive guides for tracing such letters are welcome too.
Btw say I have a set of letters and I want to generate condensed tall forms. How can I transform the existing outlines in X axis only (to get tall condensed letters) but without making the horizontal strokes of a letter excessively thin?
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What works for me is tracing along the center path of your shape.
Then utilizing stroke adjustments and/or the width tool to properly match the width you need it to be. Keep in mind the width tool does not adjust the entire stroke evenly but gradates size from the point you choose (which is great for having even distribution of different stroke weights).
Below I quickly demonstrated how you can match and keep an even stroke throughout a shape. In the left picture I simply adjusted stroke weight (This ensures it is even throughout). The right picture is how the width tool works (for reference).
Hope this helps.
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