[pdftex] How do I use tfm-only font in pdftex?

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:40 PM 8/1/2002 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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>junk.pfb is a copy of tir.pfb. Contrary to what I expected pdftex *does*
>intepret this file, so a dummy file of size 0 doesnt work ...

afaik pdftex does look into the font data and does some optimizations with 
font procedures (or whatever they are called) in subsetted fonts

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