16 Aug
2007
16 Aug
'07
11:59 a.m.
But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)!
I agree, metatype1 is not very easy to use if you are familiar with metafont already. For existing fonts, mf2pt1 is in general the best approach, I think. There is a (patched?) version out there that delegates most the hard work to fontforge, and it's results are normally quite acceptable.
There was once (1990) an article in TUGboat 11:4, pages 525-541 which discribes an patch to mf84. The patched mf could produce type3 fonts. Should'nt it be possible to do the same for type1? Wolfgang