Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a package that can take a "bitmapped" black-and-white image and produce PostScript "outline" code which would draw the equivalent?
Reason: I have an assortment of hieroglyhpic, cuneiform etc characters in ancient scripts which I want to be able to use as scalable characters in groff text. I can make images of these, for instance by scanning, as bitmaps or similar. Given a PostScript graphic, I know how to use this in groff as a "character" scaleable by the surrent point size. However, the direct PostScript equivalent of a bitmap has a lot of bytes in it, since it draws it dot by dot. If I took the time and trouble, I could make individual PS equivalents by PS line or curve commands (which in any case would scale snoothly) in far fewer bytes; but I would like to do this in software. Basically: given, e.g., the bit pattern 000 0 0 00 00 00 00 0 0 000 is there a program which would take this pattern and produce an economical PostScript code which would operate by drawing two ellipses as smooth curves and filling the space between them? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19-Oct-98 Time: 17:52:38 --------------------------------------------------------------------
