I used to have Edinburgh installed - MS Word font, Alpine Electronics. It looks like they're long gone as is my font. What do you use to produce checker diagrams? There used to be freeware around but my google-fu is weak.
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Re: Checkers fonts
Alpine: https://www.partae.com/fonts/
Some people compose their diagrams for free at http://fmjd.org/dias2/index.php?game=64
Also, if you compose diagrams as an image (.gif should be fine), in some way, you can compose a template diagram (with pieces and kings) and edit a copy of the template using any paint program. It's a quick way to compose nice diagrams, especially for use in emails.
If you see a diagram style that you like, on the Internet, then you can do a screen-capture, and you can use that as a template for your paint program. You can do something similar with KingsRow. Compose the diagram on KingsRow, then screen-capture, then use the paint program to reduce to a handier size. Convert to grayscale (and maybe increase contrast somehow) if your diagram will be printed in black and white on paper.
Finally, I use my word processing program to draw a border around the diagram. That's much easier than typing or drawing borders. Or your template may already have a border.
Paul Braithwaite composes nice diagrams for the English Draughts Association Journal. He uses Word tables (one cell per square). I am not sure if he fills the squares with checker characters or images. He probably uses Word to draw the border around the table.
Some people compose their diagrams for free at http://fmjd.org/dias2/index.php?game=64
Also, if you compose diagrams as an image (.gif should be fine), in some way, you can compose a template diagram (with pieces and kings) and edit a copy of the template using any paint program. It's a quick way to compose nice diagrams, especially for use in emails.
If you see a diagram style that you like, on the Internet, then you can do a screen-capture, and you can use that as a template for your paint program. You can do something similar with KingsRow. Compose the diagram on KingsRow, then screen-capture, then use the paint program to reduce to a handier size. Convert to grayscale (and maybe increase contrast somehow) if your diagram will be printed in black and white on paper.
Finally, I use my word processing program to draw a border around the diagram. That's much easier than typing or drawing borders. Or your template may already have a border.
Paul Braithwaite composes nice diagrams for the English Draughts Association Journal. He uses Word tables (one cell per square). I am not sure if he fills the squares with checker characters or images. He probably uses Word to draw the border around the table.
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I use Aurora to generate diagrams, today I posted maybe 20-30 here https://www.facebook.com/groups/russiancheckers/. I use the Snipping Tool, save the diagram as Capture.jpg and then upload to Facebook. This does not answer the original question to generate diagrams for a document, the problem there is that the colored diagram might not scan or print well.
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The Aurora uses this font https://fonts2u.com/draughts-utrecht.font to generate rtf files.
On my PC I found a Xhecker Medium font.
On my PC I found a Xhecker Medium font.
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I do this four ways but two are preferred.
1) From KingsRow, as Jim Loy suggests above (4th in preference).
2) On my own (publicly available) site, diagrams.bobnewell.net, which takes the FMJD site and adds the capability of generating a diagram from FEN notation (3rd in preference).
3) With Jim Loy's excellent TrueType checker font (2nd in preference).
4) With LaTeX and other tools, and some scripting, using Matthias Kegelmann's beautifully done raster font. This is what I use for The Checker Maven and in some checker books (1st preference). But it probably requires too much arcane software for general use.
1) From KingsRow, as Jim Loy suggests above (4th in preference).
2) On my own (publicly available) site, diagrams.bobnewell.net, which takes the FMJD site and adds the capability of generating a diagram from FEN notation (3rd in preference).
3) With Jim Loy's excellent TrueType checker font (2nd in preference).
4) With LaTeX and other tools, and some scripting, using Matthias Kegelmann's beautifully done raster font. This is what I use for The Checker Maven and in some checker books (1st preference). But it probably requires too much arcane software for general use.