Has anyone ever seen this before, or know how this is done.
Received a postcard with personalized text. The text was clearly a font and not handwriting. The letters within the block of text were randomized. Counted at least four different versions of a lowercase A, several versions of a lowercase E, and many other letters that has at least two version of the character. Presuming this was a VDP product I can imagine someone set alternates for all these characters manually. Guessing it either had to be some sort of style programming with something like XMPie, or something built into the font face itself?
Nope. Lammy? Didn't I see this name many years ago or am i missing something?
It's absolutely VDP, and can be done with FusionPro, with the correct add-on option... https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/products/pd/software/commercial-industrial-printing/variable-data-printing/marcomcentral-fusionpro-expression
We have done something with that software before, Blackmail_Letter.pdf. It's called FusionPro Expression (https://fusionpro.com/expression/). And they have quite a few built templates to choose from, but making your own is no too difficult either.
And here is a link (https://marcomcentral.app.pti.com/printone/catalog.aspx?uigroup_id=9261&folder_id=305211) to their catalog of templates.
I have received postcards that really looked handwritten, but knew there was no way
Hey Lammy!
FusionPro Expression is really all about image VDP, this sounds like (without seeing a sample) a live font swap character by character, no?
The way it works, and you can create your own, is that you have a multitude of options for each character. Once FP Expression gets on board, it randomized which of each character option it's going to use, so each one is truly unique. It might be one of the options where you have to use their remote server to compile the data, instead of letting your own machine host it. You'd have to check with Printables.