How to make one's own handwriting font

Step 1: Scanning
	At first, you need a scanner or a graphic tablet, more preferable is a scanner. Just draw ALL - and I mean ALL - the letters you wish to use (don't forget brackets or chars like "�$) on a white sheet of paper, moderate size. The size doesn't matter. Now scan this piece of paper with a resolution like 1200ppi (I know, not everyone can achieve that quality, but if you can't scan at this resolution, try the highest one possible) and scale it down to 600ppi, this is the best resolution I found out. If you use a graphic tablet, try drawing the letters in equal size and right proportions, don't forget to set your tablet to absolute mode! Once you did this, save your work as TIF-file in a TEMP-dir. Remember, it is really nearly impossible to add new characters afterwards, so draw all the letters you could possibly use (even �� can be useful sometimes!).
Step 2: Vectorizing
	Now you need a program that can vectorize TIFs, for example Adobe Streamline. Just experiment with the settings the program offers (for Streamline, use Noise suppression 0, tightness 1 and curved & straight lines 4,5). Save the result in an Encapsulated Postscript File (EPS or AI) and you're through with this step.
Step 3: Aligning the letters
	Next step is to open Fontographer 4.1 (I never tried another program, sorry for that!). Create a new font and doubble-click on a character you don't want to use (and of course didn't draw!). Now choose File/Import/EPS... and import the vectorized file. Now you see all your letters in one letter. Your task now is to mark all the letters seperately and copy and paste them to their target position, this is, mark your drawn 'A', copy it and paste it in the place for the letter 'A'. Make sure you align the char on the baseline and the left side, this is VERY important. Now continue with all the chars you drew till you're finnished
Step 4: Scaling, Kerning and Spacing
	Now that you finnished aligning your chars, you need to scale them. Type Ctrl+A to mark all chars you just edited and choose Element/Transform... In the upcoming menu, chose center transformetion around "Basepoint" and first transformation "Scale". X and Y must be something between 500% and 900%, depending on how large your font is and how many letters you created, normally 500% is very good. Now edit all chars and align them again on the basepoint. After you finnished, Mark all characters again and choose Metrics/Auto Space... Now go to advanced menu, setting first letter and second letter to "All Characters". Now click ok and do the same with Metrics/Auto Kern... When the computer finnished calculating, give the font a name (Element/Font Info/General) and save it as a .FOG-File. Then Generate a TTF or PS-File (TTF works much better, dunno why) and now you're finnished, that's all! You can see the result in the headline of this page, this is the first font I did, the handwriting of my neighbour ;o)