[pdftex] TeX as a composition server?

[Martin Schröder]

2010/10/23 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>:
> Most forms of TeX deal with a dedicated font library with many
> choices. Most of them are Type 1. Luatex and Lualatex will go to the
> standard system font libraries instead and can use TTF and OTF fonts,

Sorry, but you got that wrong.

There are four ways:
- TeX + dvips/dvipdfmx/... (mostly no system libs)
- pdfTeX -> pdf (no system libs)
- XeTeX (system libs)
- LuaTeX (no system libs)

Best
   Martin