[pdftex] TeXtrace!

[Sherlock Holmes]

According to the README

> 2e. What are TeXtrace's drawbacks and limitations?
> """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> -- the newest pdftex (3.14159-14f-released-20000525 (Web2C 7.3.1))
>    cannot read the .pfb
>    files produced by TeXtrace. This is considered a serious limitation 
> and
>    will be fixed in a early July 2001. There is _no_ problem with older
>    pdftex's (including 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)) and _any_ other font 
> utilities

Is this still true for pdftex 14h?

Also: according to freshmeat the version is 0.50. But the .tar.gz 
expands to textrace-0.42.

Is there a 'real' 0.50 version?

Thanks,

SH


On Tuesday, May 29, 2001, at 03:00 AM, Frank Boehme wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There was just this *very* interesting announcement on freshmeat:
>
>   http://freshmeat.net/projects/textrace/
>
> I believe Pter Szab, the author, will soon himself post to this list.
> He has written a tracer that converts TeXfonts into Type 1 fonts. He
> reports that it works for the EC fonts!
>
>
>
> Frank
>
>
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