Has anybody ever tried to rewrite metafont to produce type1 fonts?
Yes. The Gyre project is using an extended Metapost to generate Type1 and OTF fonts.
Best Martin
That's MetaType1? But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)! Wolfgang
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
Has anybody ever tried to rewrite metafont to produce type1 fonts?
Yes. The Gyre project is using an extended Metapost to generate Type1 and OTF fonts.
That's MetaType1? 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. Best wishes, Taco
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