converting bitmaps

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1 total messages Started by Terry Poot Wed, 07 Oct 1992 21:55

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Author: Terry Poot
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 21:55

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Has anyone put together anything to "generalize" the type1imagepath operator?
What I'd like to be able to do is to feed Ghostscript a bitmap image and get
back a set of postscript instructions (lines, curves, fills, strokes, etc.) to
draw the image. I know this is essentially what bdftops does (and how the
Ghostscript fonts were created), but it is very specific, reading a bdf file and
producing a font. 

I was wondering if anyone had set up something to read an image and then extract
the drawing data from the results of type1imagepath. I can probably figure out
how to do it, but it's a wheel I'd rather not have to invent, if possible. I'm
trying to convert smallish black and white scanned (and manually cleaned up)
images to something I I can afford to store and transmit reasonably well. 

Alternatively, does anyone know of any other software to convert bitmaps to
line/curve drawings?

Thanks
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