dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr) (08/16/89)
I remeber reading some discussion about this a while back. Does such a thing exist? Where can it be found? please reply to me because i don't usually read this newsgroup. thanks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Daniel C. Carr <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>> North Carolina State University Computing Center <<<<<<< dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu daniel@ncsuvm.BITNET d.c.carr, GEnie
spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page) (08/18/89)
Perhaps the discussion you alluded to was the one I instigated. I wanted a general way to get a PostScript font out of a bitmap. This is clearly possible -- it happens every time you print a Mac document with a bitmap font that the Mac driver doesn't substitute a PostScript font for. However, I couldn't parse the PostScript file which the Mac generates. A guy from the Netherlands is working on just such a program (he says)... You can buy Fontographer for the Mac and create an outline font of Chicago. Fontographer can display the bitmap font as you "trace" over it. I have it, but it's not the easiest program to use. Fontographer 3.0 has just been announced; if it's as good as FreeHand (a superb PostScript drawing program which Altsys created for Aldus) then it may include an autotrace feature to make this fairly painless. Good luck, let me know if you find out more. =S