On 15/01/2020 15:53, TimW wrote:
My beautiful Victorian ornamental garden gate is nearly ready to go out
the front of the Victorian Terrace. I had a thought that it would be
great to paint the house name onto the gate rail in fine Victorian
capitals. I doubt that I have the eye-hand artistry to do this well
enough freehand, so is there a way to cheat a bit. If For instance I
find the font and print it out how would I transfer that to the gate so
that I can paint it with a fine brush? Or is there a way of making
sticky templates from a pdf?

TW

This doesn't quite answer your query, but when I wanted to make a fake
plaque to put on a sports trophy, I did something in Word as you
suggest, then laminated it, then used double sided sticky tape to fix it
to the trophy base. (This was a sort of joke, so it didn't need to be
proper fancy engraving on metal).

Speaking of which, I'm not sure what size the engravers in places like
Timpsons and other cobblers go up to, but an engraving in brass would
look nice. Limited range of fonts but some can do script.