It's not an unreasonable solution. Back in the days of Word 1.0 (pre-GUI), it was common to have a bitmap font containing the company logo (perhaps in a few var

It's not an unreasonable solution. Back in the days of Word 1.0 (pre-GUI), it was common to have a bitmap font containing the company logo (perhaps in a few variations) in a few sizes for insertion as letterhead by laser printers. The practice persists to this day in large corporations using the most modern GUI word processor; in the standard .dot template file, in the upper right corner, is a single "Z" in a special font that displays as the ZEBRA CORPORATION logo. If you look at the font, you'll find it contains but a handful of glyphs. I can see your solution having wider applicability.