Abstract: An electrophotographic typesetting system having a raster scanning means including means for directing a beam of modulated radiation across an imaging surface, means for providing relative motion between said beam and an imaging surface to produce a succession of raster lines, and forming a plurality of characters on said surface,including means for providing first digital data defining the identity and location of characters, font storage means providing data defining the contour of a plurality of characters with respect to a normalized encoded set of first and second coordinates, data processing means connected to said first and second digital data for producing third digital data defining the character boundaries intersecting a raster line, means for modulating said beam to change the state of the beam from a first state to a second state at a first intersection and to reverse the state of the beam at a successive intersection, forming said characters on said surface, said data processing means including a