Am 26.12.2010 um 17:44 schrieb Philipp Stephani: > Am 26.12.2010 um 16:50 schrieb Arno Trautmann: > >> If not – what would be the simplest way to use a Type1 font in luaLaTeX? >> (Given that no TeX adaption is present so far.) > > LuaLaTeX is more-or-less backwards compatible with pdfLaTeX, so Type1 fonts > work as with pdfLaTeX. That means you have to generate TFM, ENC, MAP, FD > files etc., usually with the fontinst script. I don't think that there is a > special interface to deal with Type1 fonts in LuaTeX (after all, they're > obsolete).
LuaTeX can read Type1 fonts with the fontloader mechanism, without going through the legacy pdftex code. But I believe that LuaLaTeX does not support using Type1 fonts with the fontloader library. Perhaps they are obsolete, but still widely used. Patrick
