looking for someone to help capture screenshots of old EAGLE font

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I'm looking to recreate the old angular font featured in EAGLE/CADsoft. I downloaded a trial of EAGLE FUSION 360 and it didn't have it (or I somehow couldn't access it).

I'd like to create what was in EAGLE as actual usable TTF or opentype font. Want to use it in some design/art projects.

cstanton · Answer

It was an OSIFONT variant, at least in later versions. 
 " New EAGLE Vector Font: - EAGLE now uses a new internal vector font which is very similar to OSIFONT, a common font implementation in the CAD industry. It covers a bigger set of characters, in particular common Western European, Greek, Cyrillic, other Eastern European characters and many special symbols. The new font does not become active unless the option "Keep old vector font in this drawing" in Options/User interface is unchecked. For new designs, the new implementation is taken by default. We give special thanks to EAGLE long term customer Andreas Weidner , ( anweid ) who designed this font for us." 
 Be wary that fonts and typefaces are subject to copyright.

shabaz · Answer

It is a nice font. If you're just looking for any vector line font that was used in the past, then 'Herschey Simplex' may be worth digging up, since that's already in digital formats, whereas the EAGLE one is possibly proprietary and not documented. Herschey Simplex does not look alike however, it uses more curve-like shapes (still straight lines when zoomed in), whereas EAGLE's font embraces straight lines and octagon-like shapes for traditionally curved characters. 
 Anyway, if you're set on EAGLE, then the two images below can be clicked on to enlarge (and to undistort them because this site sometimes renders my screenshots squashed, unless clicked on), then right-click to save in high-res, in a .png format. One set is on a grid, and the other has a blank background. (looks like we were doing it at the same time dougw ). I did it in the normal pen thickness, and a thinner pen, in case you're trying to get the line segment position values more precisely for recreating the font. 
 
 For the ones on the grid, there are 10 grid lines for the capital letter height, so you can approximately obtain line length proportions quickly.

looking for someone to help capture screenshots of old EAGLE font

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