[QuickTacBeta] Quicktack Help

[Lisa Yayla]

Hi Peter,

Will definitly send you any patterns that seem to be useful and of course
use as you like. Right now I was just doodling and making those into
patterns.

Have also been trying different picture fonts with your type tool. I have
been making fonts that are pictures, so that when you type an "a" for
example a picture of a tree comes up. Like Wingding fonts, except the idea
to make pictures that would be useful for the blind. I was using it with
Tiger and swell. I tried it out with QuickTac and found that the fonts
that I made before are too "light".  So made a new font where the pictures
have a heavier contour and seems to work just fine with QuickTac.   

Now this might not be the most useful thing, but it is sort of fun. 

My original idea was to make a sort of drawing tool for the blind by using
fonts and for others that want to make quick tactile graphics.

I will be  giving a course in making tactile graphics in a couple of
months time and it will be a pleasure to show and teach the new QuickTac.

Best regards,

Lisa





"Peter Sullivan" <peter at duxsys.com> skrev 16. mars 2007 kl. 16:58 +0000:
>Hello Lisa,
>
>If you're already making patterns, you're a quick study.
>
>One of the things I'd like is if you can send me patterns that you think
>will be generally useful.  The patterns we supply may, I fear, be too
>dense
>on, say, a Tiger.  When you make your own pattern, QuickTac just dumps a
>.bmp file in the QuickTac directory, so it is easy to share them.
>
>Any patterns you do want us to include might also be included in a
>commercial (non-free) "extended" QuickTac down the line.  I want to be
>clear
>about that up front so that there are no hard feelings about it.
>
>One user has already reported that fonts are limited to the ANSI character
>set, at least insofar as what text can be pasted into the control.  I'll
>be
>working on that after returning from CSUN next week.
>
>And, FYI, the bounce was posted by Lissa at NBP, who is subscribed to the
>list.  That's why I was puzzled.
>
>- Peter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lisa Yayla [mailto:lisa.yayla at statped.no] 
>Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 11:52 AM
>To: Peter Sullivan
>Subject: Re: [QuickTacBeta] Quicktack Help
>
>Hi Peter,
>
>The mail you got was not from me but another person that is why it
>bounced. 
>
>Congratulations on QuickTac. I've been trying it out and it is a lot of
>fun.
>Really like that you can use fonts in it. Also the pattern making option
>is
>really nice.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lisa



Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter 
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla at statped.no