[tex-k] Feature requests: otf/ttf, font expansion

[Michael Zedler]

Reinhard Kotucha schrieb:
>   >  1) cfftot1 from the lcdf typetools
> 
> Are there stand alone CFF fonts?  I suppose that you are talking
> about CFF in OTF.  But this will certainly be part of the planned OTF
> support in pdfTeX.

cfftot1 is part of the lcdf typetools and converts otf->pfb.

>   >  2) Type42 conversion (from, e.g., fontforge)
> 
> The problem is to create a subset from a TTF before converting it to
> Type42. 

Not needed, this can be done in the ps->pdf stage.

>   >  3) the autoexpand feature of pdftex
> 
> It's not easy to make it work with dvips.  

Could you explain why this is problematic? pdftex has to do hz and 
metrics expansion, dvips just the latter.

Best,
Michael