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> I am interested in (semi-) automatically generating scalable
> postscript fonts from bitmaps. 

There are two companies in the Macintosh world that claim to
have programs to convert bitmaps into Postscript object-oriented
descriptions: Silicon Beach Software and and T/Maker (I think).

These might help in producing the character description part
of the font.

A longer but tested method is to trace (on a Macintosh) the
scanned images into Postscript using Adobe Illustrator or
Fontographer (by Altsys).  The latter program will generate
all the Postscript to go along with the descriptions; if
you use Illustrator you need to write it all yourself.  Illustrator,
however, makes much nicer looking curves (which is why I had
to use it for two fonts I converted).

I don't know if any of these tasks can be accomplished without
these Macintosh programs.

- Rob
  rce229@uxa.cso.uiuc.cso