12-02-2013, 05:03 PM | #1 |
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Alphabet for DropCaps
I'm looking for a simple graphics alphabet (to include punctuation ???) to use as DropCaps.
Can anyone point me at a set? It would be very nice if it were free. Charlie |
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http://www.picgifs.com/alphabets/ you could find many graphic motives. |
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You can download (If they were for [/I]web pages, you could link them) most of these for free and embed them. I have used quite a few for my own use |
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Charlie, can you give us an idea as to "flavor?" Western, kids' blocks, calligraphic...anything? Hitch |
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Perhaps here are some nice ones for you:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/desi...wels/index.htm |
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Got to be careful what you ask for
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Can you get around search problems with the image alt text for the whole word? Do the machines use it in their search?
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In that case, the simpler way is to convert font glyphs into svg images. With Inkscape you can do that in 30 minutes (the whole alphabet plus punctuation signs). And svg images are better than jpg ones (for this purpose).
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Fonts > Export Font Glyphs > Code Points: 0041 to 005A |
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If you can live with .jpg, .gif, .png, etc. images, then the advice of Doitsu is perfect. But if you want to use svg images, then you don't need to use Inkscape as I said before; things are still easier You only need to write svg images in Sigil (all images will be the same, only will change in the letter you will use there). I give you an example:
SVG for letter A: Code:
<svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" width="100" height="100"> <text x="50" y="100" text-anchor="middle" fill="black" style="font-size: 100px; font-weight: bold">A</text> </svg> Code:
<p><img class="DropImage" alt="Image1" src="../Images/Image1.svg" /> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla ac tellus nunc....</p> Code:
p { text-align: justify; } .DropImage { float: left; margin: -12px 5px 0 0; } Here is as looks in ADE: Below you can see the respective ePub. Of course, you can change the size, the color, etc. for each drop cap (you can use all the posibilities of the svg text). Regards Rubén |
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Portculliard Initials is such a font. Give it a look. http://moorstation.org/typoasis/desi...wels/index.htm Also have a look over here. http://fontgarden.com/c/3/initial_caps_free_fonts Last edited by JSWolf; 12-03-2013 at 11:45 AM. |
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A very nice tool. I'm still experimenting with but it seems to work fine despite my lack of knowledge. Now for the really dumb question!! Is there a tutorial for using these gylphs as the first character in a paragraph? |
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Most ePub designers simply embed special dropcap fonts and apply them to the first letter of a chapter via CSS. If you search the epub forum you'll find many ready-made CSS examples that you can copy and paste. One good example, is Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat, which uses both images and embedded fonts as dropcaps. |
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