Rather than tracing the border of a magnified character to find some critical points making the character as follows,
\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-text,pst-eucl}
\DeclareFixedFont{\ps}{U}{psy}{m}{n}{12cm}% the symbol font
\DeclareFixedFont{\PS}{T1}{ptm}{m}{n}{11cm}% the times font
\def\x{4}
\psset
{
showpoints=true,
linecolor=red,
PointName=none,
dotscale=0.5,
}
\newpsstyle{gridstyle}
{
subgriddiv=10,
subgridcolor=lightgray,
subgridwidth=0.05pt,
subgriddots=0,
gridcolor=black,
gridwidth=0.1pt,
griddots=0,
gridlabels=5pt,
gridlabelcolor=red,
}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](-\x,\x)(\x,-\x)
\rput(0,0){\pscharpath[linecolor=blue,linewidth=0.1pt]{\PS R}}
\pstGeonode
(-3.483, 3.700){n1}
(-0.800, 3.700){n2}
( 1.260, 3.700){c1}
( 2.340, 3.200){c2}
( 2.340, 1.700){n3}
\psline(n1)(n2)
\psbezier(n2)(c1)(c2)(n3)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}
I want to extract such points directly from the font file.
Is it possible to do that?
The objective is to recreate such a character to be used for clipping discussed in my previous question How to fill a region bounded by a character and a graphic object with a color?