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General Categories => Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy => Topic started by: Linda Y. on January 05, 2015, 04:53:39 PM

Title: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: Linda Y. on January 05, 2015, 04:53:39 PM: Really great tool for broad pen scripts.

http://josselincuette.com/ductus/

(Link via Cyberscribes)
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Post by: Cecilia on January 05, 2015, 05:13:24 PM: ;D Just saw this on FB! it's awesome!
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: Gioia De Antoniis on January 05, 2015, 05:25:17 PM: My face right now -> ♥_♥

It's a shame I haven't a printer in my house but this is great.
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: Brad franklin on January 05, 2015, 06:27:21 PM: nice and simple!
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Post by: joi on January 05, 2015, 06:47:47 PM: omg how flippin' cool is that?!
thanks Linda!!!
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: Erica McPhee on January 05, 2015, 11:20:12 PM: VERY nice! :)
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Post by: Roseann on January 06, 2015, 12:27:01 AM: Thank you Linda!
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Post by: josselincuette on January 08, 2015, 08:22:23 AM: Hi everyone !

Thank you so much for your interest in Ductus!
First of all, I thank the administrator of this amazing community for accepting me!

I wanted today to annonce an incoming update of the tool in 2 weeks, with some new cool features, after a lot of suggestions and ideas from users. The new features are :

- Slant lines (with adjustable angle from 0 to 55°),
- Paper orientation (portrait and landscape),
- Paper format (a4, a3, letter, legal),
- Black and white mode
- Customizable colors for the main lines, the regular lines and the slant lines.

Again, I thank you a lot for your interest in Ductus. Without calligraphers like you, it would be worthless !
be sure to be notified again when the new version is live.

In the meantime, you can always make new suggestions or ask questions here if you wish !
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Post by: Moya on January 14, 2015, 02:37:40 AM: Oh how fantastic! Thank you for creating it Josselin, and for posting Linda!
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Post by: Afreen Gaffar on January 14, 2015, 01:27:57 PM: Thankyou !!! :-* :-*
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Post by: Milonguera on January 25, 2015, 08:02:12 AM: Hi Josselin--welcome to the Forum. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful tool with us! I can't wait to give it a try.
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: Perfectsettings on January 25, 2015, 03:00:03 PM: I can't wait! ;D
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Post by: josselincuette on February 11, 2015, 11:21:08 PM: Dear fellow calligraphers, it is time for another announcement !

One month ago, I launched Ductus, a tool to help anyone feeling the need to quickly generate guidelines for training purposes. I was actually surprised to see how much people found this useful, and by the huge response Ductus got in the first week (over 7000 users !).

Some of you made some pretty useful suggestions, and today, Ductus is back with some pretty cool features !

I also created a newsletter for anyone willing to keep informed about Ductus, and the next features in the works (because, yes, Ductus is ALWAYS evolving). So don't hesitate to click on the button to subscribe !

To make Ductus useful to the most people possible, make sure you share this around !

As always, Ductus would be worthless without its users.
So thanks to everyone !

Josselin C.

http://josselincuette.com/ductus
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Post by: cyndih on August 08, 2015, 10:29:39 AM: This is so great!! :)
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Post by: flummoxed on August 17, 2015, 02:34:34 PM: Very nice!

It might have been posted here too, here is a link to another such generator (though it is for pointed pen calligraphy) that a fellow member Prasad pointed out earlier- http://shipbrook.net/guidelines/
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Post by: Mtnlaurel on November 04, 2015, 08:37:51 AM: Thank you!
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Post by: Tasmith on January 02, 2016, 11:14:23 AM: Awesome! Thank you!
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Post by: Leanda on February 13, 2016, 04:59:17 PM: Thank you Linda for bringing this brilliant resource to our attention, and thank you Josselin so much for creating it!!
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Post by: bunkie68 on February 24, 2016, 03:36:52 PM: What a wonderful resource!
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: KrzysiekS on April 12, 2016, 06:52:53 AM: I could not get "Ductus" to draw slant guides at 3 degrees, so I've made my own guidelines.

http://liniuszek.prv.pl

It was tested on Chrome and Firefox.

Feel free to suggest improvements.
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Post by: june.witch on April 12, 2016, 12:56:19 PM: Josselin, thank you SO MUCH for Ductus! You freed me from constantly making practice sheets in Illustratior!
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Post by: EdgeofthePond on July 04, 2016, 03:45:50 PM: Great site! These practice sheets that can be set for any sized lettering are perfect for me, especially since I'm a newby.
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: ash0kgiri on September 07, 2016, 12:22:55 PM: This guide generator is not working. Once you set the parameter, save it then it gives me this error.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /ductus/dompdf/generate.php on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Post by: jimbooregon on May 11, 2019, 06:57:47 AM: Outstanding, thanks Linda. 8)
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Post by: Tushar on August 07, 2020, 09:15:56 AM: Hello,

I have checked the website and WOW! its amazing. Thanks a zillion times for sharing this guideline generator link. Helping me a lot to create guidelines for practicing my first practice form that is ITALICS.

I have a small query popping in my mind. Like Ductus is an online guideline generator do we have any offline software that can be installed on pc for generating guidelines or guide workbooks for various calligraphy forms? I'm totally new to calligraphy so just curious if something like that is available.

Please pardon me for my ignorance.

Thanks and Regards
Tushar
Title: Re: Ductus - a simple guide lines generator for calligraphers
Post by: Cyril Jayant on November 28, 2021, 04:42:44 PM: I have not tried it as I don't have a printer at home but I guess this a great idea and a creation.
THANK YOU !!!!