[comp.fonts] postscript to raster font?

frison@cs.arizona.edu (Glen Alexander Frison) (09/20/90)

Is there any way to convert PostScript fonts to raster font files? I need
some raster fonts for various (laser) printers, and it seems to me that,
instead of buying several different fonts for different raster devices, I
could buy one PostScript font and use a piece of software to have the font
put into a bitmapped form of various sizes and resolutions. I know you can
do this with TeX fonts (you can convert fonts to "Generic Font" format with
MetaFont), and am wondering if the same capability is available in the
PostScript world.

-g frison  (mail: frison@cs.arizona.edu)