I am no PS guru, but maybe this can help get you started:

I see that there is a PostScript::Font module for processing PS fonts. That should help with getting the metric info needed by PostScript::TextBlock. Or you could check out one of the other modules in Postscript-Font on cpan to see if one of them can fetch the font info from your font.

Then I'd use something like pstoedit (which uses ghostscript) to convert the PS to a GIF or whatever format you need. I would not expect this to be lightening fast, though.

HTH, --traveler