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From: elev35@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Metafont---Pictures
Message-ID: <5032@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jul 90 08:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: elev35@castle.ed.ac.uk (R C Smith)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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Hi all,   I have an idea..correct me if I am wrong..I would like to
include pictures in LaTeX using Metafont characters.  The pictures that
I have are 320 X 200 16 grey scale.  Is it possible to create a charcter
set using Metafont to represent these levels of grey scale.  i.e. I
would like to have the characters 0 -> F where 0 is blank and F is black
with various levels of fill in between.  Each of these characters would
be 0.5mm by 0.5mm.

I could then convert my pictures to :-

0000012345.....320 wide.....54321000 \newline
0000001234..................43210000 \newline

for 200 rows, having the row spacing of zero.

Can someone give me some pointers as to how to do it, I have just bought
the Metafont book but I am still far from being able to use it.

Thanks for any help.

Robin Smith
elev35@uk.ac.ed.castle