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From: rohlicek@bbn.com (Robin Rohlicek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: postscript fonts from bitmaps ?
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Date: 16 Mar 88 13:00:34 GMT
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I am interested in (semi-) automatically generating scalable
postscript fonts from bitmaps.  Specifically, I would like to take the
bitmap metafont output and scanned hand-created fonts and make 
postscript spline outlines.

Has anyone looked at this problem lately?  A recall a paper I read
several years ago from Xerox PARC (I think) which looked at a similar
problem (using a dynamic programming algorithm for knot placement).
Does anyone have any information that might help?

Thanks,
	Robin Rohlicek.