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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: bitmap to font
Keywords: bitmap font conversion
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Date: 25 Jul 90 20:44:05 GMT
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In article <34476@ut-emx.UUCP>, allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) writes...
>Does anyone have tools to convert an arbitarty bitmap into a 1
>character font file (.pxl or .pk) with an associated .tfm file?  This
>would seem like an easy way for people without a postscript printer to
>print out graphics.

John McClain at Texas A&M has a set of tools for this sort of
thing for the graphics packages used by the ACS there; his e-mail
address is ophelp@tamvenus.bitnet.

There is also a program called CAPTURE which takes HPGL files and
converts those directly into PK files; this is a commercial
package and is sold by Micro Programs Inc. (251 Jackson Ave/
Syosset, NY 11791--cost: $137) 

Pat Wilcox has written a package METAPLOT which takes arbitrary
pen-plotter files and converts them into MF files which can then
generate whatever resolution PKs are needed. Her e-mail address
is wilcox@cis.ohio-state.edu

Perhaps, someone should suggest to the pbm people that they
implement code for converting to/from PK/TFM pairs?

-dh

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