[texhax] [pdftex] image XObjects in pdfTeX or XeTeX PDF output?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 22 November 2010 Peter Davis wrote:

 > - I'd like to have support for micro-typography at some point, and
 > I gather this has also been added to XeTeX in some fashion.

Though the character protrusion code of pdfTeX is already in XeTeX's
svn repository, but I doubt that it's actually used by XeTeX.  And
font expansion is much more difficult to implement.  I don't expect
anything to happen soon, especially because the author has not much
time ATM.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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