Very good point. FreeType is used in a number of PDF readers, and Type 1 still 
pops up in PDFs (just like "bare" CFF data structures not inside an OTF 
container).

Best,
Adam

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On 14.05.2013, at 02:06, Andrey Panov <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Вторник 07 мая 2013, Dave Arnold wrote:
>> I understand the need to support legacy Type 1 fonts but I think more users
>> today are interested in Open Type fonts, and that calls for TrueType or CFF
>> outlines.
> 
> Type 1 fonts are frequently embedded into PDF files distributed over Internet 
> so 
> the rendering quality of Type 1 fonts is of great importance for open source 
> PDF viewers.
> 
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