Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, as well. Showing all the text on an image is one thing... using that image as the basis of a font engine is something different.
Luckily, someone has sent me a link to a set of free TrueType fonts - http://www.gnome.org/fonts , the 'Vera' family. I guess I'll turn those into bitmaps to stay out of the gray area. I have other reasons I want to use a bitmap font, other than licensing issues. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list