[pdftex] Type 1 font problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

> There was a substantial change in the Type 1 rendering code in
> freetype2 between versions 2.8.1 (2017-09-16) and 2.9 (2018-01-08):
> a new "adobe" hinting engine was introduced and is now favored over
> the original "freetype" engine by default.

A flex handling bug was found in FreeType after release 2.9; this is
already fixed in git.  Please try!

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=cc2f3cdecff5a351e7e8961b9f2e389ab740231a

I will do a new FreeType release within a few weeks.


    Werner