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From: howie@ssc-vax.UUCP (Howard S Modell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Bitmap Font converters??
Keywords: Font Bitmap Postscript Outline TrueType PDL
Message-ID: <3831@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 22:47:09 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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Does anyone Out There know of a utility or technique for producing
anyone of {Postscript, TrueType, PDL or outline} font from a bitmap
font?  (Put another way, is there a way to convert a bitmap font to
something that, oh say an HP Deskwriter -- to use as an example the
printer I'm using -- could use to best efficiency?)  I know programs
like SuperPaint and Canvas can "auto-trace" a bit-mapped item and
produce an outline-object.  What I'm interested in is something that
could take the one more step and do whatever-needs-doing to create a
printer font from that outline-style result.