tfm generation for pdfTeX

[Fabrice Popineau]

* Bob Howlett <bobh@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes:

> Hello fpTeX users, I would like to be able to use the font
> stretching and shrinking mechanism provided by pdfTeX, where one
> makes font declarations such as \font\xxxx = cmr10 at 10 pt stretch
> 30 shrink 20 step 10 For this one needs tfm files for
> stretched/shrunken versions of the fonts. The pdfTeX manual says
> "... each scaled font must have its own tfm file! When no tfm file
> can be found, pdfTeX will try to generate it by executing the script
> mktextfm, where available and supported."  My question is: does the
> fpTeX version of mktextfm support this, or is there a way to adapt
> things to make it work?

The mktextfm.exe program does the same as does the script from the
teTeX distribution. However I'm not quite sure that this is enough.

Thanh, can you elaborate on what is needed ?

Fabrice