[luatex] Text as Paths

Esger Renkema post at elrenkema.nl
Fri Apr 15 13:17:10 CEST 2022


>Is it possible to have Lua(La)TeX produce a document where the text in 
>the output PDF are "stroked/filled paths" instead of "selectable
>characters/words"?

Yes, you can get the glyph contours from luaotfload.

See for an example how minim-mp implements metapost’s `glyph of` 
operator, in the file minim-mp.lua, under the section ‘glyph contours’ 
(you may need get the most recent version off ctan).



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