[pdftex] Setting text rendering parameter

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:

> 2009/9/29 Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>:
> > Hamburgensis
> > \hbox to 0pt{%
> >  \pdfsave
> >  \pdfliteral page {0.1 w 1 Tr}Hamburgensis%
> >  \hss
> >  \pdfrestore
> > }%
> > \hphantom{Hamburgensis}
> > Hamburgensis
> 
> And why is this better than Pawe?'s solution, which doesn't need \hphantom
> etc.?

Why should it? I got Pawel's posting AFTER I had send mine.
But you have to answer it yourself:
* Do you need save/restore? For example, do you exactly know
  your linewidth setting?
* For the first solution I would have to study the internals
  of positioning of \pdfliteral in more detail.
  At the first glance, I wouldn't want to trust it.
  But I currently don't have the time.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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