Hi all, My initial searches on this yielded bupkis; I'm looking to access the pixel-by-pixel data (preferably as a matrix, 0 for black, 1 for white) of rendered letters(given a specific font, size, and dpi. Any suggestions as to how to achieve this? Mike -- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University Website: http://memetic.ca Public calendar subscribe link for iCal users: webcal://icalx.com/public/informavore/Public.ics "The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again, but less and less and less." - Piet Hein