Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] fonts

dave engvall wrote:

> Fonts and the ability to reproduce them keep coming up on the list in
> various contexts.
>
> Since type 1 fonts are defined in Postscript and postscript is an
> interpeted language it ought not be too difficult to write a sub-set
> interpeter encompasses the commands used for describing fonts.
>
> This approach might get one out of having to do a gazillion straight
> line segments to describe what is really an arc.

Unfortunately, PostScript and many other systems use bitmaps to create
the printed fonts. There is a system called MetaFont that was used to
create fonts for the TeX typesetting program. It is available for free,

not exactly public domain, but essentially the same. Unfortunately, it
is QUITE complicated, and I have never used it, as it would take some
serious learning. Also, it produces those darn bitmaps, again. But,
the
DEFINITIONS it uses to make those fonts IS a vector and arc format.
I think the input format is pretty easy to read, ASCII text with
floating
point numbers.

Jon