This is BitMapTOfont, version 3.0 of january 94, via p2c (2) bm2font on the colour image: $ bm2font -h600 -v600 TheBigHuntcover-1.gif $ convert.exe twothingscar.png twothingscar.gif $ convert.exe TheBigHuntcover-1.jpg TheBigHuntcover-1.gif Used convert ( ImageMagick) to turn them into a suitable format for bm2font - gif looks good.
(1) Grabbed a couple of images off my blog ( and ). bm2font is an old utility that converts bitmap images to LaTeX fonts so they can be included in documents without loading packages.
Solutions that were valuable when resources were more highly constrained may not be useful today, but can teach us something about solving problems and working with limited resources.
Interesting solutions remain interesting even if newer solutions arrive. Here I’m going to talk about tools and tricks that are perhaps a bit obscure and outdated, but nifty.
