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From: ilh@winnie-the-pooh.mit.edu (I. Lee Hetherington)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: uploading bitmap info from printer
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.222756.18718@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:27:56 GMT
Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius)
Reply-To: ilh@winnie-the-pooh.mit.edu (I. Lee Hetherington)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I'd like to get some bitmap versions of a Type-1 font of my own design.  I know
that I need a PostScript interpreter to interpret the font outlines to produce
bitmaps.  Does anybody know if it is possible to use the interpreter in the
printer to produce the bitmap for a particular letter (or any graphics for that
matter) and *upload* back to the computer?  Anyone ever hear of such a thing?

Thanks for any help!

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Lee Hetherington
MIT Spoken Language Systems Group..........It's not easy to wreck a nice beach!
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