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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Chicago laserwriter font
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Date: 18 Aug 89 09:20:40 GMT
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Perhaps the discussion you alluded to was the one I instigated.  I wanted
a general way to get a PostScript font out of a bitmap.  This is clearly
possible -- it happens every time you print a Mac document with a bitmap
font that the Mac driver doesn't substitute a PostScript font for.  However,
I couldn't parse the PostScript file which the Mac generates.

A guy from the Netherlands is working on just such a program (he says)...

You can buy Fontographer for the Mac and create an outline font of Chicago.
Fontographer can display the bitmap font as you "trace" over it.  I have it,
but it's not the easiest program to use.  Fontographer 3.0 has just been
announced; if it's as good as FreeHand (a superb PostScript drawing program
which Altsys created for Aldus) then it may include an autotrace feature to
make this fairly painless.

Good luck, let me know if you find out more.

=S