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creator of myscriptfont.com here. myscriptfont.com is an older version. You can find a better app under paintfont.com.

Love your sites! They are very well done. I'm curious as to how you are creating the fonts. Did you use a programming library or did you dig into the font format specifications yourself?

Also, this is just a minor suggestion, but I would love to be able to map a non-standard character (such as the copyright symbol) to my signature.

You are probably sitting on the world's greatest resource for creating captcha images.

Very smart. I was just thinking about it.

Just an FYI, the link to "tutorial" on the main landing page of paintfont.com is broken.

works for me and there is traffic on the tutorial page. What do you mean by broken? What is the url of this link for you?

Here is a pastebin of the link: http://pastebin.com/8pPedkx2

Firefox figured it out alright for me; it's probably a browser-specific issue.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4071117/uri-starting-with...

Why not redirect the old domain?

That was what we did first. But a lot of people asked us to bring back myscriptfont.com because they did not understand this "create template" stuff .....

I think I know why they are confused. You need to:

1. Get rid of weird Select/Upload tabs. Put Upload button at the end of the page.

2. Much less instructions, nobody reads them.

3. Make character table hidden by default (with an option to show it).

4. Change "Create template(s)" button to "Download Template".

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