[comp.sys.mac] Converting Postscript fonts to bitmapped?

dmr@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Daniel M. Rosenberg) (01/13/89)

Hiyah. I have some Postscript fonts that don't seem to exist in a
screen/bitmap version. But, they're damn nice looking, and I'm
willing to expend some effort in making bitmaps for them so I
can use PageMaker and other such stuff with these fonts. What
I'm looking for, in order of preference, then:

1) A way to generate bitmapped fonts from the Poscript fonts,
and have the two work together like any other Macintosh downloadable
Postscript font.

2) A way to kludge my own bitmap font, and somehow "attach" it to
the Postscript files, so that when I use the bitmap font, the 
Postscript file is downloaded upon printing.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,

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prw@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG (Paul Wenker) (01/16/89)

A while back, we ordered a program that did this, but haven't received
it yet.  It was advertised in MacWeek and I believe the name was 
'FontSizer'.  It supposedly creates bitmapped versions of fonts in
various sizes and styles by downloading PostScript from a LaserWriter.


-Paul Wenker			prw@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG
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