Request For Help

[redevo]

Hello,

Would somebody be able to help us. We are a Muay Thai club in Scotland, UK. We are creating a badge for the club and require the words 'winners don't quit' in Thai script. Could somebody supply this as a vector file for us to use in Photoshop?

With great respect and thanks in advance.

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[Richard W]

Would somebody be able to help us. We are a Muay Thai club in Scotland, UK. We are creating a badge for the club and require the words 'winners don't quit' in Thai script. Could somebody supply this as a vector file for us to use in Photoshop?

Do you really want such a file? Are you planning to manipulate the vectors to curve the text? If you're at that level of sophistication, you could always use TTX to dump the (control) point positions from a suitable true-type (or open-type) font. (The control points are not as sophisticated as they're made out to be. You intercalate an on-curve point mid way between 'successive' off-curve points. For two successive on-curve points, just join the dots in a straight line. For an on-off-on sequence, the points are the three points of quadratic Bézier curve.) The glyph names may be a bit unhelpful - look up the codes for the Thai characters at the Thai character code chart and use the 'cmap' to get the glyph name. Note that you will get something like 30 points per consonant!

You might find it a lot easier to use WordArt in Word to bend the text for you and then just manipulate at the pixel level. It works with Thai letters (and vowels and tones) just as well as with Roman letters.

And now you're wondering whether ผู้มีชัย=ไม่เลิก (where '=' just represents the best place for a break if you need one) is the best translation. Sorry, I can't help you there.

[In the Rai!]

I am sorry you can play around with the formatting.

Here is the best translation I can come up with that could be used in Thai as "winners don't quit" when translated does not make sense.

ผู้ชนะย่อมสู้ไม่ถอย

translation = "winners who fight dont take a step back" or " winners who fight dont walk away"

I hope this helps.

In The Rai!

Edited September 29, 2006 by In the Rai!