At work 'a friend of mine' is writing a lot of little intranet CGI applications. His firm's graphics dept made up an intranet style guide, and they went out and comissioned a special mandatory font for the banner atop each page.

But they won't distribute the font! Instead of 

<div class="mandatoryBannerFont">Application Title</div>

[download]
He has to make a .gif.

"But it is impossible to duplicate this font," they say. "So please order your custom .gif here."

And then they are charging him $170 per image, so there is a requisition form and manager sign-off and everything else. And lots of times what he really wants is some dynamic text up there...

However he recently noticed that the font files are sitting in AFS (-644) so the wisdom I seek (on his behalf) is:

Is there a perlish way to make images out of PS fonts?

(A .pl sitting with the font files is piping raw ps through Ghostscript and 4 bitmap filters before reading the other end of the pipe with GD. It's usable, but takes about 10 seconds... )

TIA-- :)

In reply to Font Mafia by faure

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