HP fonts and raster data

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From: Pierre Darmon
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 22:47

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I have a HP font file that contains 1 character, namely a scanned image
of my signature. I was trying to use it as a raster file in order to
include it in TeX using \special.

The file works fine as a font and I can download it to the printer and
use it as a font.

I tried to strip the header of the file and only keep the data part,
assuming it was like raster data. But when I tried to just send that file
to the printer, I got some garbage. Is the font data different from
raster data? Can I achieve what I am after with this font file?

Thanks.

Pierre Darmon
acc1bbs!pierre.darmon@ssr.com

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From: pierre.darmon%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Pierre Darmon) 
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Subject: HP fonts and raster data
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Date: 14 Aug 92 22:47:00 GMT
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