tfm generation for pdfTeX

[Han The Thanh]

> > 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 ?

I have modified the mktextfm script from tetex, but it's for unix
only, so don't know whether it helps. Let me know if you need it.

Thanh